Biography
Jerome White-Bey is a Missouri prisoner and anarchist organizer who founded the Missouri Prison Labor Union in 1998. He was arrested on June 26, 1978, pleaded guilty to robbery, second-degree murder and armed-criminal-action counts, and received a 50-year sentence. He entered the Missouri State Penitentiary on October 11, 1979. His political organizing developed in prison and was not the basis of the underlying prosecution. Public prisoner-support records document his continued confinement through 2014, but an authoritative release date or current custody status has not been established.
Portrait source
Original 250 × 241 pixel photograph linked from the published interview with Jerome White-Bey, reproduced in Scission, August 1, 2014, under the heading “Jerome White-Bey 2014 (Missouri Prison Labor Union)” and image label “jerome.” The linked original was hosted by Prison Books Collective and is preserved in the Internet Archive, April 17, 2014 capture. The photograph is historical; its original capture date and photographer are unverified. Published without cropping, retouching, upscaling, or generated detail.
