DC-RAIL

End the D.C. Lockdown

• Government stats expose D.C.'s injustice system.
• D.C. Lockdown flyer: Print this out and get it up.
• MIM factsheet on prisons and the prison system: The Amerikkkan Lockdown Index.

Free, Voluntary Education for Prisoners Petition Drive

DC-RAIL has launched a petition drive to increase support for prisoner education. Read up on it here, and get involved!

• Latest news on the petition.
• Petition text

Other news

• Tens of thousands protest impending war, still lack realistic outlook (15 March 2003)
• 200,000 return to DC as war drums get louder (18 January 2003)
• 200,000 March on DC to oppose war on Iraq (26 October 2002)
• In D.C., "race" obscures national issues (29 January 1999).
• D.C. rally against private prison (15 October 1998).
• DC-RAIL ends prison transfer petition drive, turns to education (1 October 1998).
• One calculation of prison labor profits (1 October 1998).
• In D.C., injustice first, drug treatment later-to-never (1 October 1998).
• Prince George's cop murders unarmed man (28 May 1998).
• DC Retains Murder Capital Title (15 May 1998).
• D.C. Lottery Preys on Blacks (5 May 1998).
• DC Prisoners Transferred Far Away From Families (Janurary 1998).
• 1992 MIM Notes article on DC statehood.

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