the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Aug 4, 2025
A prisoner was killed in western Maryland’s “maximum security” North Branch Correctional Institution on July 18. Last year six people died at the prison, where prisoners also died in 2011 and 2015.
Guards are driven to brutally harass prisoners or set them up to fight to the death. This isn’t rehabilitation, and it isn’t repaying a debt to society. This is effectively capital punishment, which Maryland claimed to end in 2014.
Before then, North Branch was Maryland’s “death row,” where people sentenced to death were held until the state executed them. What has changed?