Write to Josh!
Josh was transferred today to the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic and Correctional Center in Bonne Terre, Missouri. He will be held there for an undetermined amount of time before being transferred to a more long term facility. Josh has expressed that he would like to receive letters, so please take a moment to drop him a […]
Reportback from Josh’s Sentencing
The court room was certainly packed. It was full to capacity, with a number of people waiting outside the courtroom doors. Our phones were taken as we entered, a strict manifestation of the “no cellphones in court” rule, probably because there were so many of us (and maybe because so many of the people entering […]
Missouri Prison Newsletter #10
Issue #10, December 2015 The Missouri Prison Newsletter is distributed to (about 275) people in prisons across the U.S., but focusing on those incarcerated in Missouri and Illinois. The previous eight issues are available here: Issue #1, January-February 2014 Issue #2, February-March 2014 Issue #3, March-April 2014 Issue #4, April-May 2014 Issue #5, May-June 2014 […]
Pack the Courtroom for Josh’s Sentencing
Pack the Courtroom for Josh’s sentencing hearing Thursday, December 10th, 1:30pm Courts Building, 3rd Floor 105 South Central Avenue Clayton, MO 63105 Josh Williams, a 19-year-old rebel and a staple of the fight against racism and police terror in Ferguson and St. Louis will be sentenced on December 10th on charges associated with a demonstration […]
An Account of the Recent Rebellion at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama
On September 9th, 2015, after days of lockdown and other unusual restrictions on their movement, inmates at Donaldson Correctional Facility in Bessemer, Alabama, rushed the unlocked door of the dining hall en-masse and occupied it before taking over the common area of the dormitory and refusing to lock down. The prison had been placed on […]
Missouri Prison Newsletter #9
Issue #9, October-November 2015 The Missouri Prison Newsletter is distributed to (about 230) people in prisons across the U.S., but focusing on those incarcerated in Missouri and Illinois. The previous eight issues are available here: Issue #1, January-February 2014 Issue #2, February-March 2014 Issue #3, March-April 2014 Issue #4, April-May 2014 Issue #5, May-June 2014 […]
Update from Menard Hunger Strikers
The hunger strike at Menard Correctional Center lasted 6 days, from September 23-September 28. Twenty-one prisoners participated. It seems like the administration has begun to cave to some of the strikers’ demands. The disciplinary reports filed during the strike have all been cleared from the prisoners’ records. However, they are still facing some amount of […]
Noise Demonstration in Solidarity with Hunger Strike at Menard Correctional in Illinois
On September 23rd, prisoners in the administrative detention unit at Menard Correctional Center in Chester, Illinois declared a hunger strike in response to the administration’s continued unwillingness to respond to their demands for relief from their conditions of long-term solitary confinement. See below for their list of demands and description of their conditions. This strike […]
8.19.15: The police kill again in St. Louis. Some accounts and thoughts on what happened in response
On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 11:30 a.m., St. Louis Police shot and killed 18-year-old Mansur “Man-Man” Ball-Bey. Within hours the police had been shouted off the block and by nightfall tear gas and fires dotted the neighborhood. August 19th marked the one-year anniversary of police shooting and killing Kajeme Powell. A march was held […]