Prisoner Support Resources
For more information about the EF! Prisoner Support Project, or to get involved, contact us at:
PO Box 163126
Sacramento, CA 95816
efpris@riseup.net
EF! PSP tabling materials, including the updated 2014 Prisoner Support Flyer, can be found here.
In addition to our EF! PSP and the North American Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network who provide a listserv for updates on eco-prisoners, the following organizations provide critical assistance to comrades behind bars. Support their work and support the struggle!
Dedicated to ensuring that our nation’s prisons, jails, juvenile facilities and immigration detention centers comply with the Constitution, federal law, and international human rights principles, and to addressing the crisis of over-incarceration.
American Civil Liberties Union’s National Prison Project
Anarchist Black Cross chapters are an excellent resource for political prisoner and prisoner of war support. Denver ABC features a detailed political prisoner list, NYC ABC a birthday calendar & South Brooklyn ABCF a searchable action alerts.
Anarchist Black Cross
Publishes a regular newsletter, a website and social networking site to publicise the plights of the prisoners, publish their prison addresses and encourage supporters and sympathisers from around the world to write them letters and cards.
Animal Rights Prisoner Support
c/o Left Bank Books 92 Pike Street, Box A, Seattle, WA 98101. An organization that sends books to prisoners in the United States. Similar projects exist across the U.S. This is one of the longest standing.
Books to Prisoners
Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.
Critical Resistance
132 Nassau Street, RM 922, New York, NY 10038. NLG produces the Jailhouse Lawyers Handbook on how to bring a federal lawsuit to challenge violations of your rights in prison, for $2.00 in stamps, check or money order to “NLG.”
National Lawyers Guild
The NA-ELPSN is part of the Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network (ELP), an international network of groups that support people who are accused or convicted of actions taken in defense of the Earth and its inhabitants.
North American Earth Liberation Prisoners Support Network
Publishes annual extensive Prisoner Resource Directory. “We are the first point of contact for people to connect with prisoners’ rights organizations, community organizations, prison literature and arts projects, family and visiting resources, etc.
Prison Activist Resource Center
The PLN highlights mail censorship, sexual abuse by prison guards and prison overcrowding; often takes on the role of prisoner advocate, going to court against states and private prison operators.
Prison Legal News
PO Box 1272, New York, NY 10013, USA. Jericho is a movement with the defined goal of gaining recognition of the fact that political prisoners and prisoners of war exist inside of the United States despite the United States’ government’s continued denial
The Jericho Movement
An online archive preserving the history of protest movements for animal rights and environmentalism.
The Talon Conspiracy: Prison Support Archive
Sponsor a prisoner subscription!
The Earth First! Journal provides over 100 free subscriptions to political and politicized prisoners around the country. We must rely on people outside prison to cover the cost for them. Please sponsor a prisoner subscription.