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Tuesday, 24 November 2015 00:00

BREAKING: Rev. Pinkney in Solitary Confinement

Local supporters protesting Rev. Edward Pinkney's solitary confinement at Marquette Branch Prison, Nov. 22, 2015.

As of Saturday, Rev. Edward Pinkney has been "segregated" (i.e. placed in solitary confinement and isolated from other prisoners and all visitors). The reason given was so trivial, it's obviously an excuse for retribution against Rev. Pinkney for exercising his First Amendment rights. We do not yet know how long the solitary confinement will last. He had already been in 24/7 "lockdown" for bogus charges concerning telephone use and the lockdown was supposed to end Nov. 25th.

Published in End Racism and Discrimination
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Sunday, 25 January 2015 00:00

“This is a fight for us all,” says Rev. Pinkney

“This is a fight for us all,” says Rev. Pinkney

The People’s Tribune interviewed Rev. Edward Pinkney who is imprisoned in Marquette, Michigan.  Pinkney is a leader of the people who was unjustly convicted of vote fraud charges in Benton Harbor, MI and sentenced to up to ten years in prison. He speaks about what this fight is all about.

Published in Criminal Injustice
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Wednesday, 10 December 2014 00:00

Rev. Pinkney Convicted, Threatened with Life in Prison

Rev. Pinkney Convicted, Threatened with Life in Prison

Rev. Edward Pinkney, the 66-year-old community activist who has battled for decades on behalf of the mostly Black population of Benton Harbor, Michigan, was this week convicted on five counts of forging the dates of some signatures on a petition to recall the town’s mayor. The Berrien County jury was all-white. So was the judge and the prosecutor.

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