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Ed Mead: Prison Lives Matter May 7, 2021 Ed Mead, right, and Mark Cook, left, were both active in Seattle’s ‘70s leftist paramilitary underground, Ed through the group George Jackson Brigade. Both men were incarcerated for long periods of time, where their militant human rights organizing became organizing for prisoner rights. Both Ed and Mark organized inside Walla Walla prison, where Ed organized Men Against Sexism and Mark formed a prison chapter of the Black Panther Party. They are pictured here at a discussion in Portland, Ore., May 10, 2014. by Ed Mead There had been a bit of a prisoners’ moment back in the 1950s; it took the form of a rash of prison riots across the country. As a result of this national uprising, changes were implemented, wardens became superintendents, guards became correctional officers, prisoners became inmates and the prisons themselves were renamed “correctional institutions.”

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