“Most people think, ‘If you're under US Marshal jurisdiction, you must have committed some horrible crime.’” Wanda Bertram of Prison Policy Initiative tells us. “But there's a lot of people there who are just undocumented, and their cases are becoming criminalized.”| The Real News Network
“We are pushing for the state to not only close prisons permanently and not reopen or sell them, but then to try and transform the conditions of the prison… detoxify the land, give it back to the local communities.”| The Real News Network
“Incarcerated workers are a part of the working class,” award-winning journalist Kim Kelly says. And we are “not telling the real history of labor in this country if [we’re] not focusing on the organizing efforts and the labor of people who are in prison.”| The Real News Network
