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PROTEST TO FREE THE PRAIRIELAND DEFENDANTS: WEDNESDAY 3/11
PROTEST IN SUPPORT of the Prairieland Defendants this Wednesday 3/11 outside the courthouse at 4pm. The Prairieland Defendants are a group of 18 people arrested for holding a protest outside an ICE detention facility in Texas where they set off fireworks and made noise…
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PITTSBURGH STAND UP!
TAKE UP THE FIGHT AGAINST PRISON KILLINGS IN PGH Across Pennsylvania, incarcerated people are sent hundreds of miles away where they face horrific conditions behind bars. Correctional officers (COs) brutalize and murder inmates with no recourse and these killings are on the rise. There…
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November 2025 death in CCJ ruled a homicide
In November, inmates reported to Dare to Struggle about a fire at Cook County Jail (CCJ) that led to the death of an inmate later identified as Martinez Duncan, 24, and the removal of 5 Correction Officers (COs) from the deck. Just last week,…
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PACK THE COURT FOR CARL MILLER
Wed Feb. 25 @ 2pm at 320 jay st, Brooklyn, NY In 1979, then 19-year-old Carl Miller was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Rabbi David Okunov. Carl then spent the next three decades upstate in New York prisons. He has steadily maintained his…
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ATTICA CALLING – issue #3
ATTICA CALLING – issue #3 WHO ARE THE REAL CRIMINALS? ICE DETENTION AND US PRISONS We are in the midst of an explosion of mass detention of immigrants. In just one year, the number of people being held in detention centers increased by 75%…
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Dare to Struggle Chicago x Cook County Jail
A summation of the struggle at CCJ – Nov 2024 to Dec 2025 Why Cook County Jail? Cook County Jail (CCJ) is the largest single site jail in the country (96 acres spanning eight city blocks). Holding anywhere between 5,000-6,000 inmates on any given…
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ATTICA CALLING – issue #2
ATTICA CALLING – issue #2 Women at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility suffer abuse and inhumane conditions Bedford Hills Correctional Facility is the only maximum security New York State women’s prison. The women there have made numerous reports of mistreatment, including the following complaints, all…
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Burke and Snelling celebrate gun felony program, while people are forced to arm themselves for their own protection
On November 21st, Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen Burke gleefully announced the city-wide expansion of the Felony Review bypass program. Originally a pilot program launched in the predominantly Black Englewood and Calumet districts, the program allows CPD to directly file felony gun possession charges…
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Notes on O22 from Inside CCJ
A letter from participants of the October 22nd National Day of Protest Against Police Brutality inside Cook County Jail When we dare to struggle, we dare to win, and we either STAND for something of FALL for anything. To all the men and women…
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Free Adrian Rucker
The following is a letter from 25-year-old Adrian Rucker, the young man arrested “in connection” to the June 5th killing of CPD officer Krystal Rivera, with minor grammatical edits. Rivera was shot from behind by her partner, Carlos Baker, a Chicago cop with a…
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