Incarceration

St. Louis: Spring Prisoner Newsletter on Inauguration, Vaughn and Beyond

Read and Download Here Some folks in STL recently sent out a new prisoner newsletter. Contents include a never before seen firsthand account of the J/20 DC anti-inauguration riot, information about the Vaughn Rebellion and some...

12 Points Against Seattle’s New Youth Jail

For more than five years, thousands of people in Seattle have fought the construction of a new $210 million youth jail in Seattle’s Central District, the city’s historically African-American neighborhood. People from all walks of...

Prisoner Led Dialogue: On the Necessity of Destroying Prison and It’s World

Download Zine Here This is the first essay in a series of prisoner writings entitled Prisoner Led Dialogue: On the Necessity of Destroying the Prison and the Miserable World that Thrives Upon It. Prisoner writings such...

Kite Line #30: Support Communities

Listen and Download Here This episode, we focus on two individuals who are working to organize support systems for communities that are directly affected or targeted by law enforcement and incarceration. First, we continue our...

Political Prisoner Birthday Poster For March 2017 Now Available

Hello Friends and Comrades, Here is the political prisoner birthday poster for March.(11″x17″ PDF, 430KB) Also available in color here, and as a shareable PNG here (imgur link). Print it out and plaster your community,...

Bloc Party: Private Prisons and False Promises

This last week the Attorney General Jeff Sessions, issued a one paragraph memo that undoes the previous recommendation by former Deputy Attorney General, Sally Yates, to roll back federal contracts with private prisons. Jeff Sessions...

Kite Line #29: Families and Prison, Part Three

Listen and Download Here Our focus for this episode returns to the impact of incarceration on families. First we have a discussion between our friend Lucy and one of her fellow classmates at Indiana University,...

Twin Cities IWOC Podcast: Stories from the Inside, “The Water Ain’t Right”

Stories from the inside is produced by the Twin Cities Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee or IWOC. It features stories from people inside Minnesota’s prisons about what it’s like to be there, how they’re working...

Kinross Prisoners Facing Up to Two Years in the Hole for Rebellion

Overview of the Kinross Rebellion and Retaliation On September 9th, 2016, people in at least 46 prisons took part in a national prisoner work stoppage. The occasion was the 45th anniversary of the Attica Prison...

Abolitionist or Demolitionist? (Words Carry Meanings)

During the 19th century those who were against chattel slavery were called “Abolitionists” and they organized what was called The Underground Railroad, a vast conspiracy consisting of slaves, escaped slaves, free-Blacks, whites, Natives, secret...