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Leonard Peltier’s 80th birthday statement released
Greetings All, On this Wrongful Conviction Day, Leonard Peltier, the longest-serving Indigenous political prisoner, is incarcerated in lockdown-modified operations conditions at USP Coleman I, operated by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). Yet, in this moment of silence, Leonard speaks. To honor his birthday and all those who are unjustly convicted and incarcerated, the […]
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Death by incarceration: The U.S. prison system is slowly killing its political prisoners
By denying parole and medical treatment, the U.S. prison system is sentencing its longest-held political prisoners to a slow death.
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Leonard Peltier has COVID-19: Action needed to get him care
Indigenous activists and supporters held a news conference in Tampa, Florida, on Jan. 31 to announce that Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier had contracted COVID-19 in prison, endangering his life.
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Leonard Peltier may finally get out of prison after more than 4 decades
Peltier has served about four-and-a-half decades in prison for a crime–the killing of two FBI agents in a 1975 gun battle at the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota–that even his erstwhile prosecutor now admits that Peltier did not commit.
