Juvenile Lifers Without Parole

Detroit 40 Cities for Mumia Abu-Jamal banner, Sun. July 3, 2022
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Detroit Holds Mumia Rally – Part of 40 Cities for Mumia

July 11, 2022 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff July 3, 2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the conviction of African American journalist and political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal in the city of Philadelphia. Activists from around the country and the […]
More than half of Michigan juvenile lifers still wait for resentencing
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Juvenile Lifers Stricken With COVID-19 in Michigan Prisons

June 18, 2020 fwstaff
The following is an abridged version of the original article. By Efrén Paredes, Jr As Michigan leads the nation in the chilling number of COVID-19 deaths occurring inside its prison, 196 incarcerated people sentenced to […]
Lakeland Correctional Facility
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Prison Suspends Feeding in Crowded Dining Hall During COVID-19 Crisis

April 27, 2020 fwstaff
By Efrén Paredes, Jr. After publicly making repeated warnings about the danger of feeding people in crowded prison dining halls at tables less than two feet apart during the COVID-19 pandemic, Lakeland Correctional Facility (LCF) […]
Pam Africa
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Pam Africa visits Detroit to headline public meeting on Mumia Abu-Jamal and the unjustly convicted

April 30, 2019 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe An historic conference entitled “Freedom for the Unjustly Incarcerated” was held on April 20 in the Midtown District of Detroit where MOVE organizer Pam Africa and the Rev. Edward Pinkney of Benton […]