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Rattling The Bars — 198 episodes · page 2 of 2
The 13th Amendment legalizes slavery—and many states have their own version
For incarcerated people, the holidays are a reminder of captivity
Malik Rahim: Climate justice and the prisoners' struggle go together
Baton Rouge cops tortured detainees at 'Brave Cave' black site
Maryland's parole system 'conditions people for despair'
El Salvador's 'gang crackdown' and the permanent state of exception
The Cop City RICO charges and America's road to fascism
Alabama's 'astonishingly cruel,' untested plan to kill Kenneth Smith
Ed Poindexter has been a political prisoner for 52 years. His family just wants him to come home.
Who was George Jackson? America's prophetic revolutionary
Juvenile sentencing in the US is barbaric, racist, and ineffective
Nebraska teen, mother imprisoned for abortion is just a taste of post-Roe America
Former Guantanamo detainees were deported to Kazakhstan, UAE
Inside the fight to expand addiction care in Alaska
How Maryland discriminates against women prisoners
Trump's indictment and America's two legal systems
Taking the school-to-prison pipeline fight to state legislatures
A Juneteenth call to close prisons
US Sentencing Commission could reduce prison time for thousands
Former prisoner of 48 years reviews John Oliver's report on solitary confinement
Cash bail is an abomination of justice. We should get rid of it.
How one organization is training formerly incarcerated leaders to fight mass incarceration
Khader Adnan's martyrdom is an indictment on Israel's abuse of Palestinian prisoners
A new media project seeks to bring incarcerated writers to the forefront of prison abolition discourse
May Day's history shows why labor and prison struggles are intertwined
How a 1970s prisoner-organized literacy program changed Maryland's penitentiaries
How Maryland inmates organized for university-level education in prison
The US is guilty of genocide w/ Jalil Muntaqim
The Pendleton 2 saved a man's life. A judge sentenced them to 200 years for it
A tribute to the revolutionary life of Marshall 'Eddie' Conway
'The Road to Damascus' uses theater to confront white supremacy
A new federal proposal could seize 75% of commissary funds families send to loved ones in prison
Mass incarceration has lasted for 50 years now
We lost Malcolm X, but we can’t lose the dream of international revolution
Dozens of Texas prisoners are hunger striking against solitary confinement
Interview from prison: What an inhumane carceral system does to human psyches
These women are fighting Nevada's prison system—and winning
2022 was Rikers Island's deadliest year. Again.
'Tax Broke' Baltimore's Dirty Secret
He was supposed to be out on parole, but ICE deported him to Cambodia
El Salvador's history shows migration isn't the problem, imperialism is
It's time to legalize marijuana
San Quentin Prison is a COVID deathtrap
Cholera outbreak in Haiti's prisons amid protests against Henry government
Judge rules California prison must close
Lacino Hamilton speaks on his 26-year wrongful imprisonment
Black August and the fight to free political prisoners, with the Jericho Movement
Advocates demand Israel end solitary confinement of Ahmad Manasra, imprisoned at 13
Stop trying to revive local economies with prisons
Repurposing prisons can revitalize rural America
Virginia revokes early release for inmates with good behavior
Chris Hedges on trauma and teaching writing in prison
New York prisons ban care packages containing food
How Maryland is preventing prisoners from getting college degrees
Why are so many LGBTQ people incarcerated in the US?
Cutting incarcerated mothers off from their families hurts everyone
The prison-industrial complex is an environmental catastrophe
Imprisoned Ferguson activist ‘assaulted by guards, assaulted by Nazis’
Prisoners allege abuse at ‘shock’ camps
The for-profit companies charging prisoners to read their own mail
'It is torture': Women in Maryland’s prisons have nowhere to turn
Revolt against the carceral world
An Arkansas jail tested ivermectin ‘treatment’ on detainees without their consent
How Maryland prisoners took on the governor
Why the holidays are the most painful time of the year for prisoners
‘How juveniles are railroaded by the criminal justice system’
The death penalty is a barbarous stain on our humanity
‘This is COINTELPRO 2021’
‘We want Rikers closed and no new jails in its place!’
Surviving the darkness: Eddie Conway speaks with Guantánamo Bay detainee Mansoor Adayfi
Why is Alabama using federal COVID relief funds to build prisons?
A staggering number of inmates have died in Louisiana prisons
‘Fighting to free our people’: 55 years of the Black Panther Party
As Delta surges in prisons, states stop sharing statistics with the public
Cuba & the US: A tale of two prison systems
Remembering Gloria Richardson
Eddie Conway: Slave labor has always been the bedrock of capitalism
Remembering George Jackson, revolutionary author and activist
Slavery still exists in the US, but these CA organizers are working to end it
Big business exploits prison labor instead of paying fairer wages
Connecticut made prison phone calls free. Other states should do the same
1998 mass shooter still used to justify life sentences for juveniles
The US is the ONLY country sentencing children to life without parole. A movement is fighting back
U.S. Supreme Court ruling makes it easier for judges to give young people life sentences. Now what?
How an entire Black community was poisoned
The latest on the deadly effects of COVID-19 in prisons
France's attempts to extradite Hassan Diab have chilling implications (EXTENDED INTERVIEW)
Hassan Diab is accused of a deadly explosion. Supporters say his continued persecution isn't justice
The unending COVID-19 disaster in Maryland prisons
California prisons: A public health disaster
Mumia has COVID-19, supporters demand his release
Greek political prisoner is at death’s door
Black mass incarceration in the so-called Free State
The government murdered Fred Hampton. Will it ever be held accountable?
Refusing to vaccinate prisoners is both CRUEL and DANGEROUS
Prisoners have power in their own words
Charlie Cobb: 'Protest is necessary ... but it is not sufficient.'
'Bring Sundiata home': The case for freeing elderly political prisoners