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Prison Break: New Year, Same Struggle for Abolition
January 1, 2021 7:54 pmWith The Marshall Project reporting that 1 in 5 prisoners in the U.S. have had COVID-19, we are beginning the new year... Read Full Article
Prison Break: Cracks Beneath the Ice
December 1, 2020 3:13 amMuch has happened in the last month: Nobel laureates and interfaith leaders have called for the release of political prisoner David Gilbert... Read Full Article
Prison Break: “Our Passion For Freedom, Is Stronger Than Their Prisons”
November 2, 2020 4:26 pmphoto: Calvin Ma We’re being told that the fate of democracy itself is at stake, that by casting our votes this week... Read Full Article
Prison Break: With Arms Wide Open
October 1, 2020 6:35 pmIn the last few weeks, the public has gotten a rare glimpse into the horrific plight of prisoners locked away in U.S.... Read Full Article
Prison Break: Take One From Us, Another Appears
September 1, 2020 6:57 pmSo much has happened in the last month. Kenosha, Wisconsin and Lafayette, New Orleans have joined the growing number of cities in... Read Full Article
Prison Break: Come Together, Right Now
August 1, 2020 12:43 amAs this is being written, unidentified Federal agents are disappearing protesters off the streets of Portland, Oregon, police nationwide are doubling-down on... Read Full Article
Prison Break: If They Come For You in the Morning…
July 1, 2020 4:08 pmThe rebellion that began in Minneapolis following the brutal police murder of George Floyd quickly spread across the country, and the world.... Read Full Article
Prison Break: Political Prisoners and COVID-19
June 3, 2020 3:14 amThis piece was in the final stages of editing when events around the country, and the world, escalated in response to the... Read Full Article
Prison Break: Memory and Struggle
May 1, 2020 2:27 amWhile COVID-19 continues to upend life as we know it, its devastation is multiplied tenfold for those inside prisons and jails around... Read Full Article
Prison Break: Must Be Some Kind of Way Out of Here
April 1, 2020 5:19 amWith COVID-19 continuing to wreak havoc across the globe, we must pay particular attention to our comrades behind the bars. The extent... Read Full Article
Prison Break: Brick by Brick, Wall By Wall
March 1, 2020 2:43 pmWe enter March with the news that Chuck Africa, the last incarcerated member of the MOVE 9, was released in February, after... Read Full Article
Prison Break: Fighting Until They All Come Home
February 1, 2020 2:45 amAs you flip your new 2020 Certain Days calendar to February, you will see beautiful artwork by Ethan X. Parker, an illustrator... Read Full Article
Prison Break: Welcome to 2020
January 2, 2020 3:14 pmIt’s now the year 2020 and we’ve still got an abundance of prisons and a stubborn willingness to fill them. There is,... Read Full Article
Prison Break: Fire to Warm Our Hearts
December 1, 2019 11:40 amYou’ve probably noticed that you’re on your last month of your 2019 Certain Days calendar. Don’t fret, the 2020 Certain Days: Freedom... Read Full Article
Prison Break: Message In a Bottle
November 1, 2019 8:17 amThere’s only two months left in the year, and that means only two more images in your 2019 Certain Days calendar. November’s... Read Full Article
Prison Break: Victories Along the Way
October 1, 2019 12:22 pmCan you believe it’s October already? Time flies when you’re busy fighting the State and working to free our political prisoners. As... Read Full Article
Prison Break: Through the Bars
August 30, 2019 3:02 pmMicah Bazant’s beautiful portrait is featured as the September artwork in the 2019 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar. The poem... Read Full Article
Prison Break: In the August Heat
August 1, 2019 8:13 pmThe August artwork in your 2019 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar should look familiar. This beautifully detailed art by Montreal-based... Read Full Article
Prison Break: Always On the MOVE
June 28, 2019 6:38 pmThe year is now more than halfway over. We have received all art and article submissions and are busy compiling the 2020... Read Full Article
Introducing: Prison Break from the Certain Days Collective
May 30, 2019 12:21 amWe are pleased to introduce the brand new column Prison Break, which is a project of the Certain Days Collective, a long... Read Full Article
BreakOut: Dispatches on Resistance to the Pandemic Inside Prison Walls #4
July 2, 2020 6:04 pmAs prison abolitionists, many of us have been fighting in solidarity with and alongside imprisoned comrades for many years. But in the... Read Full Article
North Carolina: Demonstration at Neuse CI in Solidarity with Prisoners Facing Outbreak
May 11, 2020 9:15 pmReport back from recent noise demonstration and car caravan in North Carolina, in solidarity with prisoners who are also organizing in the... Read Full Article
BreakOut: Dispatches on Resistance to the Pandemic Inside Prison Walls #3
May 8, 2020 4:08 amAs we enter week 14 of the pandemic, attitudes are starting to shift; the shock is wearing off and many of us... Read Full Article
BreakOut: Dispatches on Resistance to the Pandemic Inside Prison Walls #2
April 23, 2020 2:49 amIt’s been nearly two weeks since we sat down to collect the stories of how COVID-19 has torn through the US prison... Read Full Article
BreakOut: Dispatches on Resistance to the Pandemic Inside Prison Walls #1
April 10, 2020 5:12 pmAccording to some scientists and statisticians, we are entering into what will be a peak week for infections and deaths across the... Read Full Article
Strike Breaks Out at Angola Prison As Momentum Builds for National Prison Strike
May 10, 2018 2:13 amOn Tuesday, inmates took part in a work stoppage at the infamous Angola prison in Louisiana to decry prison slavery. Angola is... Read Full Article
Always Against Prison — From Hamilton to Minneapolis
January 7, 2021 4:19 amReport back on banner drop in solidarity with five people facing serious charges following a New Year’s Eve noise demonstration in so-called... Read Full Article
Political Prisoners and Prison Rebel Birthdays for January
January 5, 2021 2:51 amInspired by the spirit of the Political Prisoners Birthday crew, here’s a short listing of some rebel prisoners who have upcoming birthdays... Read Full Article
Prisoners Stand Together in Response to DOC Negligence
January 3, 2021 4:43 amPerilous Chronicle reports on collective action by prisoners at Airway Heights Correctional Center in Washington against transfer to a COVID-19 hotspot. By... Read Full Article
As Pandemic Death Toll Rises, Protesters Converge on Corrections Secretary’s Home and Prisons Across California’s Central Valley
December 14, 2020 6:40 pmReport from Perilous Chronicle on wave of protests across Central California against rising pandemic related deaths of prisoners. See Oakland Abolition and... Read Full Article
Abolitionists Protest at Home of Wisconsin Prison Boss Over COVID-19 Deaths
December 4, 2020 1:14 amReport on recent protest at the home of Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC) Secretary over ongoing deaths of inmates due to the... Read Full Article
Hunger Strike Amidst COVID Outbreak at Saskatoon Correctional
December 2, 2020 1:13 amPerilous Chronicle reports on hunger-strike carried out by prisoners at the Saskatoon Provisional Correctional Centre in Saskatchewan, Canada. By Ryan Fatica Prisoners... Read Full Article
Hunger Strike Enters Third Week at California’s Largest Prison
November 14, 2020 2:20 amPerilous Chronicle reports on the ongoing hunger strike at Corcoran prison in Central California. By Ryan Fatica In the southern part of... Read Full Article
“Flipping the Script”: Letter from Imprisoned Anarchist Eric King
October 9, 2020 12:01 amLetter from anarchist prisoner, Eric King. King discusses his current fight against trumped up charges and conditions on the inside. Eric King... Read Full Article
“All the Way in the Fight”: Black Lives Matter Protest in Michigan Prison
October 2, 2020 4:23 pmReport from Perilous Chronicle on recent protest at Michigan Prison. Around 10:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 13th, a guard at Chippewa Correctional... Read Full Article
Prisoners Riot and ‘Completely Destroy’ Unit at Upper Peninsula, Michigan
September 16, 2020 7:30 pmA housing unit at a prison in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula was completely destroyed early Monday in an uprising by prison rebels. Prison... Read Full Article
“We’re Suffering in Here”: Rebellion and Bloodshed Amidst Oregon Prison Evacuations
September 14, 2020 12:23 amAs one of the most severe fire seasons attacks the West coast, prisoners across Oregon are being shuffled into sub-standard conditions and... Read Full Article
Hurricane Laura Phone Zap in Support of Prisoners and Detainees
August 27, 2020 4:47 pmAs Hurricane Laura touches down, please participate in the following phone-zap in support of prisoners and detainees. Donate to hurricane commissary and... Read Full Article
Tallahassee, FL: Abolitionists Block Streets and Hold Mock Funeral in Solidarity with Prisoners Threatened with COVID-19
August 27, 2020 2:25 amReport on recent abolitionist action in Tallahassee, Florida in support of prisoners threatened with COVID-19. On August 22nd, organizations from across Florida... Read Full Article
Rebellions Break Out in Lafayette and Kenosha as Solidarity Marches Hit the Streets
August 25, 2020 4:29 amA new round of uprisings has kicked off across the so-called United States following the police killings of Trayford Pellerin, “a 31-year-old... Read Full Article