Resources

Films

Gender & Sexuality

Lockdown: prison, repression and gender nonconformity A 22-page zine analysing the enforced gender segregation and classification in prisons as well as strategies for resistance.
Prison Abolition is a Queer issue A4 handout on why prison abolition is a queer issue
Prisons Will Not Protect You An anthology by the radical LGBTQ group “Against Equality”
Still We Rise A resource pack for transgender and non-gender conforming people in prison
Tenacious, Art & writings by women in prison Regular zine coming out of the US produced by prisoners
The Queer, feminist & trans politics of prison abolition toolkit

Groups & Organisations

Bent Bars Project The Bent Bars Project is a letter-writing project for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, gender-variant, intersex, and queer prisoners in Britain
Critical Resistance Pioneering US based group organising for prison abolition.
Sisters Inside Australian based group who work from an abolitionist perspective
The Anarchist Black Cross Federation Federation of groups supporting prisoners, political prisoners & prisoners of war

Health in Prisons/Medical Neglect

Treatment Industrial Complex A new report from the US on how for-profit corporations are undermining efforts to treat and rehabilitate prisoners for corporate gain.

Prison Abolition & Prison Alternatives

Abandoned: Abolishing female prisons to prevent sexual abuse and herald an end to incarceration Article by David W. Fran. Exploring examples in the US & the UK.
Creative Interventions Toolkit to stop interpersonal violence
Generation Five Organisation working to end child sexual abuse in five generations, from an abolitionist perspective
Instead of Prisons: Handbook for Abolitionists Comprehensive text on alternatives to prison & the decarceration movement
Resisting Gender Violence Without Cops or Prisons Talk by Victoria Law
The Abolitionist Toolkit Toolkit for abolitionists developed by Critical Resistance in the US
The Audre Lorde Project’s Safe OUTside the System Collective Organising efforts for community safety resisting police violence
Towards Transformative Justice Document produced by Generation Five
Under the Yoke of the State Selected anarchist responses to prisons & crime, vol 1. 1886 – 1929
What About the Rapists? Collection of articles representing different approaches to the problem of harm & domination in our communities, from transformative justice-based accountability processes to retributive-based acts of survivor-led retaliation.

Prison Industrial Complex

Close Supervision Centres: Torture Units in the UK #2 Publication produced by Bristol ABC about Close Supervision Centres.

Prison Labour

The Prison Works The Prison Works. Occasional texts on the roles of prison and prison labour By Joe Black/Bra Bros. Published by the Campaign Against Prison Slavery and Brighton Anarchist Black Cross

Prisoner Support

Life Without Prejudice Long term prisoner John Bowden asks what criteria could be used when supporting prisoners
On The Out A zine about life after prison, produced by Bristol ABC.

Recommended Books

Abolition Now! Ten years of strategy and struggle against the prison industrial complex Short book of different articles around prison abolition, mainly US focused by still very real & inspiring.
Are Prisons Obsolete? Incredible book by Angela Yvonne Davis, 2003, Seven Stories Press
Beyond Walls and Cages. Prisons, borders and global crisis Important book linking migration & the P.I.C. Edited by Jenna M Lloyd, Matt Mitchelson and Andrew Burridge, 2012.
Captive Genders: Transembodiment and Prison Industrial Complex Book about gender & the P.I.C. An important read.
Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex: Activism, Arts, and Educational Alternatives Book about how to creatively challenge the prison industrial complex
The New Abolitionists: (Neo)slave Narratives And Contemporary Prison Writings Written by prisoners about the contemporary prison system in the US

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