ICE didn't know who it was messing with when it locked up gifted storytellers like Sami Hamdi and Rümeysa Öztürk. They're exposing abuses in ICE jails that are also prevalent throughout the rest of the carceral system. Jeremy has more in @truthout.org and @theappeal.org

"While this censorship might seem brazenly anti-constitutional to most Americans, it has been the reality faced by incarcerated individuals for decades. In the name of 'security,' prison officials have punished and even killed people for possessing literature they deemed suspect." @theintercept.com

Incarcerated people have long faced discipline for reading literature that guards don't like. Now Daniel Sanchez Estrada is facing federal trial tomorrow for possessing anarchist zines. Jeremy wrote for @theintercept.com about how the case could bring prison style censorship to the outside world.

The Alabama Solution got an Oscar nod this week for showcasing abuses exposed by incarcerated people recording guards with contraband cell phones. But as the Academy deliberates, the FCC is muzzling the next exposé. Read Jeremy’s article in partnership with @freedom.press and @theintercept.com

Jeremy joined the Kill Switch podcast to talk about how prisons block social media to stop incarcerated people from exposing abuses. Listen to the episode here.

To learn more about Vijandre's case and ICE's targeting of pro-Palestinian journalists, check out the webinar below:

Journalists’ arrests chill their rights and abruptly end their reporting, removing them from newsworthy events. The public is left less informed as a result.

Thanks to our friends @empowermentave.bsky.social for bringing attention to this article from @inquest.bsky.social about the retaliationJeremy and other incarcerated journalists face for speaking the truth.

Read Jeremy' article for the @chicagotribune.com

A lot of our work is about incarcerated journalists' rights and the retaliation they endure to get the truth out. That struggle is very real, but it's not the only story they have to tell. Read about how fatherhood in prison gave Jeremy renewed purpose despite devastating obstacles.

Jeremy wrote for @chicagotribune.com about why freeing Larry Hoover is not only the right thing for @govpritzker.illinois.gov to do, it's good politics. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/08/07/o...

Jeremy wrote for the Austin American-Statesman about how a punitive and cruel drug crackdown in Texas prisons are putting lives at risk while failing to address the root causes of substance abuse. www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

''Prison journalism should not be illegal. It should not be starved, stifled, or silenced ... laws need to change." Read @inquest.bsky.social's article featuring Jeremy's account of how his own journalism, and that of outside reporters wanting to tell his story, is stifled by prison authorities.

" ... Since my brother was deported, I have been terrified. I find myself waking up in the middle of the night, tapping the side of my bunk to check if I’m still in my prison bed."

It can take an incarcerated person weeks of strenuous work to afford even just a stick of deodorant. Story via @vera.org.

#DayoftheImprisonedWriter is nearly here! From 15 Nov–10 Dec, we’ll highlight four writers jailed for speaking out: Rory Branker, Yalqun Rozi, Mohamed Tadjadit and Mzia Amaglobeli. Join us to call for their release! #DayoftheImprisonedWriter #RoryBranker #YalqunRozi #MohamedTadjadit #MziaAmaglobeli

In his Life Inside essay, Bobby Bostic discusses his writing workshops in juvenile detention centers. “These kids are full of potential,” he writes. “Giving them guidance is my way of giving back.”

The Alabama Solution couldn’t have been made without incarcerated people having access to cell phones. Think that has to do with why the Trump administration now wants to jam cell phones in prisons? Read more from @joinjeremy.org in collaboration with @freedom.press and @theintercept.com

Thomas Koskovich writes that it's stressful when anyone dies in your prison, especially when no one ever tells you what happened.

John J. Lennon tells Bill Keller that he “wanted to tell a different story about the guilty” in his new book.

What to the incarcerated American is the freedom to vote? For most of the nearly 1.5 million people locked up in prisons across the U.S., there is, in fact, no freedom to vote at all. Only two states, Maine and Vermont, permit the franchise to its incarcerated citizens.

PJP is such an important publishing platform and resource for incarcerated journalists. Their work makes the work that we do (of connecting and amplifying those journalists) more possible!

Last week, the Federal Communications Commission voted to increase phone and video calling rate caps for incarcerated people. In July we published dispatches about the necessity of phone calls, and how high costs — relative to extremely low prison wages — affect their connections to loved ones.

“We are each other’s best hope”: In a Q&A with Adryan Corcione, @mskellymhayes.bsky.social discusses her new anthology “Read This When Things Fall Apart,” (out now by @akpress.org) alongside movement work, navigating collective crises, & dealing with burnout.

Thanks to those who joined our Monday webinar with journalists abducted from Gaza aid flotillas, and special thanks to our panelists: @recolston.bsky.social, Emily Wilder, Noa Avishag Schnall, and @chipgibbons.bsky.social. Did you miss it? Watch it here:

US police killed an average of nearly four people each day in 2024. “According to a report by Mapping Police Violence, police killed at least 1,365 people in 2024, making it the deadliest year since the group began recording such data in 2013,” Sharon Zhang wrote for Truthout.

"In Idaho prisons, more than two dozen women say guards prey on them with little fear of consequences — and those who speak up are often punished." The U.S. is a leader in women's incarceration, and behind bars, women are anything but safe. 🧵

Here's Wilder's account for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social of what she went through and witnessed as a U.S. journalist in Israeli custody. RSVP for the discussion tomorrow to hear more from her and others. jewishcurrents.org/forty-eight-...

🔴 This International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists is the perfect time to call your lawmakers and tell them to stop cherry picking which countries to hold accountable and to stop bankrolling Israel’s wars in Gaza and beyond that have killed hundreds of journalists.

The United States is the only nation in the world where a child can be legally sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole. Michael Montgomery is one such survivor of what he calls this “modern-day murder by the system.” #SecondLookMovement #FreeThemAll joinjeremy.org/2025/10/30/m...

Maybe this explains why ICE taped bags over windows of journalist @peoplesfabric.com’s cell so he couldn’t see out when they baselessly arrested him in September.

With SNAP expiring, at least one Calif community is responding not by helping people get food, but by threatening hungry people with arrest This is what we mean when we say policing is a policy choice that creates crime Here’s the math that proves it 🧵

A reminder on Halloween: The carceral system is a real-life monster, and it's full of tricks – no treats. Here are 5 facts about mass incarceration that are actually frightening 🧵

Months before his death, Ralph Marcus explained how a COVID-era leg injury led to a rare bone cancer that didn’t have to be fatal.

British journalist and commentator Sami Hamdi is fighting his ICE detention and the Trump administration's effort to deport him, even though he had a valid visa thedissenter.org/british-jour...

ICE’s network of for-profit detention facilities is expanding rapidly under the Trump administration. Even though they operate under federal law, they’re not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. That needs to change. Read about this and more in our latest Advocacy newsletter (and subscribe):

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"What We Demand We call on our communities to recognize that abolition is not only about tearing down cages but also about building worlds expansive enough to hold our transitions, our elders and our descendants. We name the Menopausal Multiverse as an abolitionist cartography…"

What are journalists dealing with on the front lines covering DHS and ICE? @attorneynora.bsky.social @writeralejandra.bsky.social @plasticjesusart.bsky.social @mvtopic.bsky.social and I had a lot of ground to cover in this 1-hour panel hosted by @exposedbycmd.bsky.social and @acslaw.bsky.social!

Incarcerated people have long talked about a “blue wall of silence” in prisons: an unspoken agreement among correction officers to cover up for one another’s abuses. A report filed after the murder of Robert Brooks exemplifies this phenomenon.

New federal rules were set to cut the high cost of prison phone calls, a vital link for incarcerated people and their families. But Trump’s return has stalled reforms, keeping rates steep and profiteers protected.

Incarcerated people use contraband phones to expose abuses. That's why the FCC wants to jam them - not to stop crime. Read Jeremy's article for @theintercept.com in partnership with @freedom.press. And watch The Alabama Solution on @hbo.bsky.social for more on what cell phone footage has revealed

Incarcerated people facing retaliation are confronted with "a maze of onerous procedural requirements" when they try to sue. Jeremy joined @freedom.press and @aclu.org to talk about how this broken system harms journalists -- both inside and outside prisons.

Alabama has just executed Anthony Boyd tonight. Lauren Gill explained so much that went wrong in his case and trial. Important to not look away.

Carceral institutions utilize the same tactics to silence those reporting news from within them, as well as those facing incarceration as the result of their outside reporting. Privatization enables even less transparency. Take this quick action now to help safeguard incarcerated journalists:

"Someone might write home, 'When I got my canteen issue, my rectangular choco treats were all melted.' 'Snickers,' I gather, is too close to 'candy,' a slang word for a certain white powder."

Lamont Mealy, a mentally ill man, was locked in solitary confinement in a Maryland prison. Guards shut off water to his cell. A fellow prisoner says guards taunted him. He died of dehydration after 8 days. His family's lawsuit asserts officials covered it up.

This summer, Kwaneta’s essay Behind the Walls was published in a special issue of ZEKE Magazine, Window Into Solitary. Read her work and consider supporting as a paid Substack subscriber: kwanetaharris.substack.com/p/behind-the...

ICE isn’t the secret police, and the private detention centers it contracts with to hold tens of thousands of people — including journalists it arrests — shouldn’t be off-limits to FOIA requests. Use our action center to tell your member of Congress: FOIA should apply to private facilities.

The San Quentin film festival — which featured films from incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people — was one for the books. "We pulled it off in only seven months."