PJD T.V. 2026

PJD T.V. 2026

Livestream for the 51st Prisoners’ Justice Day with hosts El Jones & Desmond Cole

Tune-in Monday, August 10th from 7–10pm EDT
www.youtube.com/@cpepgroup6577

Artwork by Tania Willard (taniawillard.ca)

For the 51st year in a row, PJD events are taking place across the country on August 10th to commemorate the lives lost to human caging and to stand in solidarity with imprisoned people who are demanding an end to draconian conditions of confinement. In support of these efforts, the Abolition Coalition is again organizing PJD T.V. on August 10th from 7:00pm to 10:00pm EDT.

The online broadcast will feature demands from inside, interviews with criminalized people and community organizers, as well as live and recorded footage from local PJD events from coast-to-coast. We do so to expose the brutalities of imprisonment that kill people each day and demand prisons change, while working towards decarceral futures where we are free, strive to keep each other safe, and respond to harm in our communities in just, healthy and transformative ways.

Eddie Nalon died alone in a segregation cell in Millhaven Institution located outside of Kingston, Ontario, Canada (Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabek Territory) on August 10th, 1974. A year later, Prisoners’ Justice Day (PJD) was first observed by imprisoned people held in the same Canadian federal penitentiary who engaged in a one-day hunger and work strike in support of their demands to end solitary confinement and other injustices behind bars. Since then, PJD has been marked by people inside and outside prison walls across the world.

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