CADBI-West is the Western PA arm of the Coalition to Abolish Death by Incarceration. CADBI-West is working to build a mass movement both inside and outside of prison to take a stand against DBI (Death by Incarceration, aka LWOP/Life Without the possibility of Parole) and other harsh sentencing practices. Started in 2017, the CADBI-West founding organizations were Fight for Lifers West, the Abolitionist Law Center, Let’s Get Free, HRC-Fedup and POORLAW.

Make a donation for CADBI-West here.

The Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons (FTP) is a collaboration with the Abolitionist Law Center. We challenge the U.S. Prison Industrial Complex which is putting prisoners at risk of dangerous environmental conditions, as well as impacting surrounding communities and ecosystems by their construction and operation. FTP is building networks across historically siloed movements, beginning with the abolition and environmental justice movements. By sharing resources, strategies, and time, we are building a broader community based not solely on place, but on solidarity.

Currently FTP is focused on opposing the construction of a new federal prison in Letcher County, Kentucky. Learn more and get involved with that effort here.

The Prisoner Justice and Whistleblower Support Campaign (PJWSC) developed out of the Dallas 6 Support Campaign, which was organized by prisoners and family members to defend Carrington Keys, Andre Jacobs, Anthony Kelley, Anthony Locke, Duane Peters, and Derrick Stanley, who were brutally dragged from their solitary confinement cells at SCI Dallas and stripped, beaten, pepper sprayed, and tasered. This attack was in retaliation for their reporting of other abuses in the prison, such as guards using racial slurs, urinating into prisoners’ food, unjustly beating and starving prisoners, and strapping them into restraint chairs for hours on end.

Shortly after the attack in 2010, the Dallas 6 were criminally charged with rioting. Shandre Delaney, along with the help of other family members and activists on the outside, built the Dallas 6 Support Campaign to defend the men, and to rally the public against abuses occurring in the prisons and courts of Pennsylvania. The case was successfully litigated by Carrington Keys and Andre Jacobs with help of a stand-by attorney, ending in their exoneration.

Understanding that human rights violations are ongoing and that prisoner litigators are crucial to the movement, in 2014 the Prisoner Justice and Whistleblower Support Campaign (now known as the Prisoner Justice Campaign) was founded.  Delaney, alongside advisory committee members Derrick Stanley, and Phoebe Jones (of Global Women’s Strike), developed the project to help prisoners file lawsuits against the human and civil rights violations they face. PJC also works within a community based Participatory Defense Hub,  supporting and helping justice involved people understand and navigate the processes of the court system.

The PJC is dedicated to protecting whistleblowers on the inside, amplifying the truths they expose to people on the outside and fighting to end solitary confinement and mass incarceration.

Connect with the PJC on Facebook, by email (pjcprose@gmail.com); by phone (412-444-8073); or by mail:

Make a donation for the Prisoner Justice Campaign here.

The W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School for Abolition & Reconstruction is a political education program for aspiring revolutionaries and movement leaders from those communities most impacted by poverty, policing, and mass incarceration. Our home is Philadelphia, crossroads of Harriet Tubman and Octavius Catto, W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Maroon Shoatz, a critical hub for abolitionist militancy in the past and a thriving and powerful movement ecosystem today.

Through participatory and collective study of political economy, the history of global resistance movements, and the theoretical and practical aspects of social change, we aim to teach a new generation of organic intellectuals not only how to understand the world, but more importantly, how to change it.

Make a donation for the W.E.B. Du Bois Movement School here.