Holy shit man. DHS couldn’t care less that they killed a man. Instead of the loss of human life giving them pause, ICE agents have only gotten more aggressive and emboldened.

“Pelayo said her dad described being held in a room with at least 150 other men as ICE officers constantly yell at them and call them slurs. He also told his daughters detainees are only given food and water based on good behavior.” These are the conditions at the site of yesterday’s protest.

Family of Mexican father fatally shot by ICE near Chicago 'wants justice to be done'

NLG Chicago Denounces Violent Federal Law Enforcement Response to Protest in Broadview, IL (1/2) On Friday, federal agents significantly escalated their attacks on speech and people protesting at the now notorious ICE detention facility in suburban Broadview, IL.

19 ICE detainees on hunger strike at Angola. Today makes it Day 5. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

Federal agents did this in front of the news cameras and helicopters. They did this in front of elected officials and political hopefuls. They did this in a tucked-off industrial park in Broadview, an otherwise quiet suburb just 12 miles west of Chicago. thetriibe.com/2025/09/and-...

🎧 Reporter Kelly Garcia is a guest on the latest episode of City Cast Chicago, discussing her investigation of the head of Cook County’s juvenile detention center and the results of Cook County’s chief judge election. buff.ly/Rixw9wX

MIT and University of Massachusetts Lowell published a study on the positive effects of teaching HTML and JavaScript to incarcerated students.

"How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way". A book deemed so harmful by the Florida DOC that even a review committee upheld the ban on the grounds that learning to draw comics somehow presents a threat to the safety of the prison. Even worse, per policy (p. 2), books banned like this are often destroyed.

In a desperate attempt to recruit ICE agents, DHS is offering massive signing bonuses, lowering age requirements, and shortening training periods. We've seen these exact recruitment strategies play out in U.S. prisons & jails – and they always fail 🧵

Under an emergency rule, the Illinois Department of Corrections is moving to allow prisons across the state to electronically scan and distribute mail. IDOC states this is to prevent the smuggling of contraband and hazardous substances. to.wttw.com/4p7zzs2

We are organizing to stop this egregious "emergency" attempt to censor and repress our comrades already doing hard time Politicians and prison guard unions are lying so they can implement mail scanning services from profiteering communication monopolies midwestbookstoprisoners.org/midwest-pris...

To us, censorship and repression are not abstract policies they are daily tactics used to isolate, silence, and break our organizing efforts. When a legal challenge is needed, the process is slow, resources are scarce, and communication is intentionally broken

🚨CALLING ALL CHICAGO! Join us in the streets to say "NO TRUMP, NO TROOPS!" this Saturday September 6th at Ida B. Wells and Michigan Ave at 5PM.

Latest "In Contempt" article dropped on @igd.bsky.social, updates on political prisoners, anti-ICE actions, and other news from the front lines against prison society itsgoingdown.org/in-contempt-...

While Chicago's festivals will go on, looks like organizers in Waukegan are canceling their Sept 14th Mexican Independence Parade. They fear gathering will be too dangerous with so many ICE agents in the area:

Officials warn that ICE raids could begin in Chicago as soon as this weekend. We created a resource list with support hotlines, links to legal services, & multilingual Know Your Rights materials to help inform our communities. Access the guide in English: www.citybureau.org/newswire/202...

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!

Thank you to everyone in Illinois who stood up to ICE mercenaries today. This is what it will take—to put our own bodies and freedom on the line in order to make every action they take as difficult as possible. crimethinc.com/zines/seven-... It is, in fact, our own freedom on the line.

TOMORROW September 3, 1-3pm EST/12-2pm CST, join us for a phone banking session for T HOXHA, CASEY GOONAN, XINACHTLI and MUMIA ABU JAMAL. Join at bit.ly/phonebank25 We will be making calls and emails to ensure our political prisoners' lives and well-being are protected.

Contrary to what you may have seen in the Shawshank Redemption, its incredibly hard for prisoners in the United States to get access to books. I volunteered for a project like this in North Carolina and they are a real lifeline for very isolated people in terrible conditions.

While it's unclear what President Trump has planned, we know Chicago is ready. As always, we're getting organized to protect each other. Save these legal support hotlines! 1/2

Out of Casey Goonan's singular decision to refuse food in solidarity with an imprisoned comrade in another country they had never met, the most beautiful internationalist solidarity emerged. In 2 days, Calla's piece has been translated into Spanish, French, Chinese 🧵 calla.substack.com/p/casey-hoxha

"Chi says he’s a political prisoner dealing with mail censorship, book bans, and misconduct by fed corrections officers... Chi provided prison bulletins, prison communications, and letters from his mother as proof of “how the United States government censors anarchists in the federal prison system.”

FCI McKean “banned all books entirely; then they went to just one book a day, then a few days later went back to no books, all of which violates BOP’s national policy and federal law": unicornriot.ninja/2025/mail-ce...

"Tueta Hoxha and Casey Goonan are still on hunger strike. We need people to keep emailing calling and pressuring media to get this story out." docs.google.com/document/d/1...

EMERGENCY!!! 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 US political prisoner Casey Goonan on hunger strike in solidarity with PAL Action UK prisoner T.Hoxha!!!!! Call to action below 🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔🔔

"CPD, don't shoot anybody the day our podcast drops" challenge (impossible) abc7chicago.com/post/chicago...

Black August begins. Study Train Fast Fight If you don't know what it's all about, recommended: blackaugustpo.org/about-black-...

For @slate.com, I wrote about one dimension of the totalizing Trump/Miller immigration crackdown that's not getting enough notice, which is that they're moving to make indefinite detention — with no release dates and few options to get out — a norm

5 positive news pieces in our world this week: 1. New York State prisons will eliminate fees for phone calls! www.thecity.nyc/2025/07/22/p... 2. Wisconsin Books to Prisoners is working hard to overturn a statewide ban on prison book programs: wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/07/28/w... (1/4)

Internet use in prisons improves inmates' well-being and social reintegration A study by the UOC shows that access to digital technologies and the internet is limited and unequal in Catalonia's prisons, and some of the equipment used is obsolete and inadequate www.uoc.edu/en/news/2025...

PJP contributors react to a recent decision by the FCC to delay a new rule that would have made phone calls more affordable.

Cash bail systems do nothing to prevent crime — but do benefit wealthier people, as they are “able to post bail and go home, while the average person is often unable to afford money bonds and must remain in jail until the case is resolved.” Trump himself has benefitted from cashless bail in NYC.

NEW: Eileen O'Neil Burke, the new law-and-order Cook County State's Attorney, committed to transparency while campaigning. Today, we report on her quiet replacement of her predecessor's two lists of cops with credibility issues with one much smaller list. @invisible.institute + @chicagoreader.com

The Legal Aid Society is accusing the New York State Department of Corrections of putting the safety of thousands of incarcerated individuals across the state at risk, citing a failure to comply with a preliminary injunction over their suspension of the HALT Act spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

In April, incarcerated journalist Lyle C. May reported how Trump's agenda—Project 2025—is a roadmap to carceral imperialism. Crime myths that spew racist, xenophobic lies demonize nonwhite, non-U.S. citizens to justify everything the govt does to them. Listen to May in dialogue with Burt Cohen:

“Played-out ‘war on drugs’ fear mongering is why most people behind bars no longer receive physical mail…Guards are staging drug exposure hospitalization stunts to take away physical mail… Free the books, free the mail, free the people – free them all!”

"A YouTuber argued that members of Post 12226 and I had no business calling ourselves veterans; we’d forfeited the right to do so, and the post members didn’t deserve the honor of membership in the VFW."

Call to action for political prisoner Kojo Bomani Sababu (Grailing Brown) #freethemall (1/2)

The city of Chicago will pay $17M to Roberto Almodovar Jr., who spent 23 years in prison after being framed by a corrupt CPD detective accused of routinely framing suspects.

#Chicago #police traffic stops plummeted last year, but the drop varied wildly across the city and sharp racial disparities persisted, a @wbez.org analysis of #Illinois Department of Transportation data has found. #CPD #twill www.wbez.org/data/2025/07...

Cops have US cities in a stranglehold. We can't build a livable, safe, or just society until we confront this and change it.

Another 107 people filed complaints Tuesday against the state for allegedly allowing rampant sexual abuse in Illinois juvenile detention facilities, joining 800 other alleged victims who have filed a slew of lawsuits in the last 14 months. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/16/a...

This is how the "prisons are slavery" discourse falls flat on its face and fails. As much as the evocation resonates, as much as it (accurately) points to the historic continuum of captivity and subjugation of enslaved and colonized peoples, the US imprisons the most people on the planet... 1/

Snap curfew is a test for the depth of racism that permeates our communities. It will determine the next line of attack on what’s left of Chicago’s political will to resist conservative takeover.

The “opposition party”

MEET OUR #SSZF2025 ZINEMAKERS: MIDWEST BOOKS TO PRISONERS! Midwest Books to Prisoners wields the printed word as the weapon of choice to break down prison walls and build bridges of solidarity. We fight to undermine the lack of access to communication and education while amplifying voices ...

Volunteers face delays as they work to resume sending used books to Wisconsin prisoners Last year, the Department of Corrections imposed new restrictions on Wisconsin Books to Prisoners www.wpr.org/news/volunte...

En centros de detención de ICE en todo el país, nuestros clientes y personas bajo custodia están reportando problemas alarmantes relacionados con la escasez de alimentos, su mala calidad y graves riesgos a la salud. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3kv9p9zu