Saturday, October 24, 2020

The Battle of Portland From Inside: Coming Soon To A Downtown Near You?

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  by Amie Zimmerman  “What am I driving at? At this idea: that no one colonizes innocently, that no one colonizes with impunity either; that...
Saturday, September 26, 2020

Nonunanimous Juries Under Hard Scrutiny in Louisiana

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  The framers of the U.S. Constitution adopted the Sixth Amendment  with a unanimous vote of twelve in mind. John Addams (1797): "It ...
Wednesday, September 09, 2020

Life and Death in Angola

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I remember when I got the call that my son – a White shotcaller for a Black gang in Ft. Lauderdale – was dead. I hit the floor like a f...
Monday, July 27, 2020

#LivingMonumentsToJimCrow

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This op-ed essay was first published in The Advocate on Friday, July 24th. Time to Restore Justice for Louisianans Convicted by Split...
Wednesday, July 08, 2020

CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION!!!

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BREAKING NEWS FROM THE FEDERAL PRISON IN POLLOCK, LA FROM COMRADE KEITH "MALIK" WASHINGTON: A couple of months ago, David ...
Tuesday, July 07, 2020

Kush-I: "Rastafari Prisoners Persecuted at Angola"

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Comrade Malik (Keith Washington) and Kush-I (Robert T. Smith) at USP Pollock NOTE: This article was originally published in the San Fr...
Saturday, July 04, 2020

Love the SF Bay View? Let 'em know before it's too late.

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Okay, y'all. Listen up. A lot of people inside and outside the walls have been reading and respecting the San Francisco Bay View na...
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

"I'm Counting Down The Hours Now..."

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Nearly fifty years ago, a priest I had come across somehow in my work as a prison abolitionist invited me to lunch. I was puzzled by the ...
Monday, June 15, 2020

Get In Where You Fit In When You Stand Up For Your Rights

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“Most people think that Great God will come from the sky and take away everything and make everybody feel high. But if you know wha...
Monday, May 25, 2020

Podcast: "IDOC Watch Panel: Four Voices for Liberation"

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I wouldn't normally blog when I'm at a loss for words, but I just listened to a podcast posted on the internet by The Final Stra...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

SC Static: "We Need to Try to Find a Way to Police the Police"

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Sunday, May 03, 2020

Eric Brown / TRU.ENation: On the Coronavirus, Angola, and C-Murder

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This interview was conducted by Shawn Grant  and published at The Source  on April 16, 2020. It is being re-posted w...
Saturday, May 02, 2020

Otto Rene Castillo: "Apolitical Intellectuals"

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As a writer, I've had an office at home for years. It started out as an electric typewriter on a desk in my thirties, became a c...
Friday, April 17, 2020

Update From Angola: "Today Was Stranger Than Most"

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Received early this morning from inside the walls: "Today was stranger than most. There's something weird going on and no one ...
Thursday, April 16, 2020

CJ LeBlanc: Angola Prisoners Say: "This is a war -- and we're in it."

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This article was written by CJ LeBlanc and published at  Hard Crackers on April 13, 2020. The United States, with 4.4% of the w...
Saturday, April 11, 2020

Angola Prisoners Await Their Fate

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by CJ LeBlanc In the past ninety days, the human race has found itself in the strangle-hold of a pandemic. United States citizen...
Friday, April 10, 2020

Louisiana's Coronavirus Plan For Prisons Could Create Death Camps

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This hearse was built by prisoners at Angola to carry men to the burial ground on the property. With the current onslaught of COVID-...
Tuesday, April 07, 2020

19 Lines: A Poem From Inside Angola

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19 Lines by Melvin Hassan Thornton I inhale and I exhale deep breaths of life, each one refreshing the lungs. Much work to...
Wednesday, April 01, 2020

A Prisoner Writes the Governor of Louisiana

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This is the cemetery at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. There has been quiet talk -- inside and outside the walls in America...

An Open Letter to Louisiana

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Louisiana has long been recognized for having the most people incarcerated per capita than any other group of people on the planet or ev...
Friday, March 20, 2020

The Incarcerated Person Who Knows How Bad It Could Get

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This interview by Justine van der Leun first appeared on Medium . Given our attempts to bridge the prison walls in Louisiana at this di...
Wednesday, February 26, 2020

A Message of Solidarity

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A couple of weeks ago, I was approached in the Main Prison visiting room at Angola by a Rastafarian brother. The Louisiana Network for C...
Wednesday, February 05, 2020

A Father Writes From Prison: "SHOTS FIRED!"

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NOTE: I received the following essay from an incarcerated citizen with whom I have been working. The photo above is not of him or his ...
Friday, January 24, 2020

Steven Lamont Byrdsong: "Silent Cries"

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In the midst of my journey I’ve come to the realization that we as humans are only motivated by the desires of our flesh. Even when th...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

Malik Washington: "Why I Fight So Hard For Our People!"

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“The hypocrisy of American fascism forces it to conceal its attack on political offenders by the legal fiction of conspiracy laws and high...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Rodney Spivey Jones: On Messianic Black Bodies

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This post is dedicated to the men fighting for their lives inside the walls in Mississippi. Ashe' Americans in general have u...
Sunday, January 05, 2020

The Universal and Unending Question

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I spent most of yesterday trying to scale a small mountain of mail that had piled up in the month of December while I closed out my next...