Resources

Films

• Resisting Gender Violence Without Cops or Prisons Talk by Victoria Law
• The Wobblies [Link to buy] A Documentary film on the early history of the IWW in the US

Gender & Sexuality

• Lockdown: prison, repression and gender nonconformity [Archived] 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 [Archived] A4 handout on why prison abolition is a queer issue
• Prisons Will Not Protect You [Archived version] An anthology by the radical LGBTQ group “Against Equality”
• Still We Rise [Archived] A resource pack for transgender and non-gender conforming people in prison
• Tenacious, Art & writings by women in prison [Archived version] Regular Zine coming out of the US produced by prisoners
• The Queer, feminist & trans politics of prison abolition toolkit [Archived]

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 [Archived] A 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 [Archived] Article by David W. Fran. Exploring examples in the US & the UK.
• Creative Interventions [Archived version] 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 [Archived version] Comprehensive text on alternatives to prison & the decarceration movement
• The Abolitionist Toolkit [Archived version] Toolkit for abolitionists developed by Critical Resistance in the US
• The Audre Lorde Project’s Safe OUTside the System Collective [Archived version] Organising efforts for community safety resisting police violence
• Towards Transformative Justice [Archived] Document produced by Generation Five on a liberatory approach to child sexual abuse and other forms of intimate and community violence
• Under the Yoke of the State [Link to buy] Selected anarchist responses to prisons & crime, vol 1. 1886 – 1929
• What About the Rapists? [Archived version] 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 [Archived version] Publication produced by Bristol ABC about Close Supervision Centres.

Prison Labour

• The Prison Works [Archived version] 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 [Archived version] Long term prisoner John Bowden asks what criteria could be used when supporting prisoners
• On The Out [Archived version] 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 [Archived PDF] Short book of different articles around prison abolition, mainly US focused by still very real & inspiring.
• Are Prisons Obsolete? [Archived PDF] Incredible book by Angela Yvonne Davis, 2003, Seven Stories Press
• Beyond Walls and Cages. Prisons, borders and global crisis [Link to buy] 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 [PDF] Book about gender & the P.I.C. An important read.
• Challenging the Prison-Industrial Complex: Activism, Arts, and Educational Alternatives [Link to buy] Book about how to creatively challenge the prison industrial complex
• The New Abolitionists: (Neo)slave Narratives And Contemporary Prison Writings [Link to buy] Written by prisoners about the contemporary prison system in the US
• Rattling the Cages [Link to buy] Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners