National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners

Submitted by lily on Thu, 2012-01-26 14:29

Date: February 20, 2012 6:00 am
Location: Everywhere.

Please join in on a National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners on February 20th!  Start planning and event in your area and in your local Occupy assemblies today:   We want demonstrations or other actions in front of/near/about prisons/jails/detention centers across the country.  We especially want to highlight the voices of prisoners.


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Tales from death row: Justice for Rodney Reed by Caitlin Adams

Math equations are certainly not my strong suit, but I was able to calculate the total number of hours Rodney has been unjustly incarcerated. As of this writing, January 13, 2012, that is 5,398 days or 129,552 hours. Of those 129,552 hours, we can estimate (and this is the best case scenario) that 10,736 were outside of his 6x9 cell—in the visiting room, in the rec yard, or at the commissary.  118,816 hours were in isolation; the only company and distraction being a radio, letters, photos, magazines, books, or newspapers.  

The case for a second chance


Robert Gattis
By: Marlene Martin
Socialist Worker
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

We are so overjoyed to report that Delaware Governor Jack Markell just granted clemency to Robert Gattis, who was scheduled to be killed in just a few days. Thanks so much to everyone who signed the petition and supported Robert, his mother Barbara Lewis and the rest of their family. The Delaware chapter of the CEDP, including Barbara, worked hard over the last few years to win this victory. 


Death sentence overturned

Man who has spent 20 years on death row could be freed


Jermaine Wright was convicted in 1992 in the killing of a clerk at a liquor store on Gov. Printz Boulevard.
By: Sean O'Sullivan
Delaware Online
Wednesday, January 4, 2012

WILMINGTON -- The second-longest-serving inmate on Delaware's death row may be free on bail as soon as next week.

 At a brief hearing Tuesday that left prosecutors speechless, Superior Court Judge John A. Parkins Jr. overturned the conviction and death sentence of Jermaine Wright for the January 1991 slaying of liquor store clerk Phillip Seifert. 


Remembering Martina


By: Marlene Martin

ON DECEMBER 1, we lost a true and courageous warrior in the fight against the death penalty and the criminal injustice system: Martina Correia. She died after a decade-long battle with breast cancer. She was 44.

Martina often joked that she had become known around the country and the world as “The Sister”—that is, the sister of Troy Davis, the Georgia death row prisoner who fought against his wrongful conviction and death sentence for more than 20 years. 


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