Resources
Films
- Resisting Gender Violence Without Cops or Prisons Talk by Victoria Law
- The Wobblies A Documentary film on the early history of the IWW in the US
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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