Panagiotis Avdikos on thirst and hunger strike. More information.
Resources for (future/former) prisoners
- LibCom Prison Survival Guide
- National Prisoner Resource List – USA
- Survival Ideas and Tips for the Ex-Prisoner
- Women Prisoners’ Resource Guide
- Black People’s Prison Survival Guide
- Dykes and Fags Want to Know… – 3 prisoner interview
- Anarchist Prisoners’ Legal Aid Network (APLAN)
Prison abolition
- Homes Not Jails – squatters vs. prison
- Critical Resistance
- articles & book by Dean Spade. Critical Trans Theory, an abolitionist perspective
- Fire to the Prisons magazine
- The Function of Prison by Peter Gelderloos
- Prisoner’s Talking Blues by Os Cangaceiros
Prisoner support basics
- The Importance of Supporting Prisoners
- LibCom prisoner support guide
- Writing to prisoners & Writing to Prisoners FAQ
- Wie schreibe ich Gefangenen?
- PrisonTalk.com – a general (non-@) webforum for prisoner & supporter issues
- WriteAPrisoner.com
Prisoner support networks
Various organizations exist for the purpose of supporting prisoners and former prisoners. Prominent among these are Anarchist Black Cross groups (ABC), which may organize a wide variety of activities.
- Anarchist Black Cross
- An outdated, but expansive list of ABC and related groups worldwide.
- Books to Prisoners
- Haven Distribution – Based in London, serves UK
- Books 2 Prisoners – Based in Vancouver, serves Canada
- Books Beyond Bars – Based in Halifax, serves inmates of a local prison
- List of Books to Prisoners Programs in USA
- Anti-Fascist Prisoner Support UK
- North American Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network
- Animal Rights Prisoner Support – UK & USA
- Prisoner Correspondence Project – a support project for gay, queer, and trans prisoners
- Black and Pink
- Jericho Movement – associated with New Afrikan movement
- American Indian Prisoner Support Group – probably contains outdated info
News
- Denver ABC – updated almost everyday
- Break the Chains
- 4StuggleMag – political prisoner news & views periodical
- Kein Knast! Kein Staat!
- Netzwerk Freiheit für alle politischen Gefangenen
- Prisoner news on AnarchistNews, 325, ContraInfo & Infoshop
Prisoner information
- An international list of anarchist prisoners from Brighton ABC
- Two lists of Greek anarchist prisoners on This is our Job & Act for Freedom Now
- A list of North American anarchist prisoners
- List of USA political prisoners on ZineLibrary
- Gefangenenliste von Europa, USA und Japan.
- A list of Belarusian anarchist prisoners
- Denver ABC prisoner database
- ABCF prisoner list
- A green anarchist list of prisoners
- Certain Days political prisoner calendar
- Panagiotis Avdikos on thrist & hunger strike
- Conspiracy of Cells of Fire
- Occupy arrests
- Asheville 11 – arrested May 1, 2010, imprisoned without court date
- Guelph G20 prisoners
- Tortuga Libre – Chilean anarchist wounded & imprisoned
- Jock Palfreeman – antifa Australian imprisoned in Bulgaria
- Green Scare prisoners Daniel McGowan, Marie Mason & Eric McDavid
- Marco Camenisch & Silvia, Billy & Costa – Swiss eco-anarchists
- Support CeCe – young African American transgender woman jailed for self-defense
- Bradley Manning – WikiLeaks whistle-blower. A note on their identity.
- #Anonymous prisoners – USA, UK, Italy
- Sonja und Christian von Revolutionäre Zellen. …of the German group Revolutionary Cells.
- Updated History of the New Black Afrikan Prison Struggle by Sundiata Acoli
Voices of prisoners
- Letters from Anarchist Prisoners of the “Bombs Case”
- Mainstream Media Mayblems by Amelia Nicol
- Statement to the Athens Criminal Court by Nikos Mazotis
- Refusal to testify by Carrie Feldman
- Locked Up by Alfredo M. Bonanno
- Back From Hell by Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin
- Mutual interview by Rob los Ricos & Jeff Free Luers
- Red, White and Blue Fascism by Rob los Ricos
- Letters by Diego Rios, Nick DiSpoldo, Paolo, Isa,
- Anarchist Rain by Shaka N’Zinga
- It’s Like Living in a Black Hole: Women of Color and Solitary Confinement by Cassandra Shaylor
Prison and hierarchy
- The Prison Works by Brighton ABC
- Diaspora – information about the Northwest Detention Center (USA)
Page updated January 16, 2012