The PSL joins Jailhouse Lawyers Speaks in the spirit of Abolition in bringing attention to the current and historical political struggles of prisoners and those in ICE detention to dismantle the mass incarceration system.

The PSL recognizes that the U.S. has political prisoners and we demand that they be set free. They are, as Angela Davis noted in 1971, “political prisoners in the sense that they are largely the victims of an oppressive politico-economic order.” Prisoners held in the United States for their political beliefs and activities include Ruchell Magee, Imam Jalil Al-Amin, Rev. Joy Powell, and Leonard Peltier – veterans of the freedom struggle and some of the longest held political prisoners, who are being forced to languish in prison as they age and their health deteriorates.