Monthly Archives January 2021

Solidarity behind bars: Prison activists reflect on the movement for social justice

https://www.knkx.org/post/solidarity-behind-bars-prison-activists-reflect-movement-social-justice?fbclid=IwAR19FUSpfdJktC6vfsAXz5-EItv7_GpJtOM3_j4zwwFWcK-uc1ownEp2ueQ As protests against racism and police brutality raged last summer, one group of activists could only look on from afar. “Of course you want to be there,” Vincent Sherrill told KNKX from the Monroe Correctional Complex in September. “Then, to be truthful, there’s guilt and shame along with that for putting yourself in this situation.” Sherrill is serving a life sentence for first-degree murder. He’s also a member of the Black Prisoners Caucus, one of Washington’s oldest prisoner organizations. The Black Prisoners Caucus (BPC) officially began in 1972 at the prison in Monroe. It now has chapters at almost all
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