Fyoder Dostoevsky, the Russian novelist and sometimes political dissident, once wisely observed that a good barometer of the level and quality of a society’s civilisation is the way it treats it’s prisoners, the most dis-empowered of all social …
Some guides to help if you face going to prison
Being sent to prison is shit, even worse you are now a captive of one of your worst enemies, the state, so avoid it if you possibly can. But every day more people are being …
California Prisoner Hunger Strike – More on Medical Crisis, Need Support Pressuring Immediate Negotiations
Legal representatives made visits to the Secure Housing Unit (SHU) at California’s Pelican Bay prison Tuesday, and interviewed a number of hunger strikers. Each prisoner explained how medical conditions of hundreds of hunger strikers in …
The Prison Works
‘The Prison Works’ is a cracking little pamphlet recently published by the Campaign against prison slavery (CAPS) & Brighton ABC. If you think prison does actually work, then read this. If you dont think it …
The Association of Prisoners
A while ago, Bristol ABC was one of a number of groups contacted by Ben Gunn, a prisoner at HMP Shepton Mallet, and nominated general secretary of the executive committee of the soon to be …
Why prisoner support is important
Prisoner support should be an essential facet of any anarchist’s political activities; yet our prisoner support groups attract so little actual support from our fellow anarchists. Why is this? The following article has been written …
The ongoing struggle against prisons and the prison society
Prisons are in the news this week, and not just because of the shocking statistic that the prison population has increased by 66% since 1995, to just over 84000 locked up human beings. The main …
News from the campaign against prison slavery
The last couple of days has seen the Guardian newspaper publish a major article by Richard Cookson and Phil Chamberlain headlined ‘Inside the sell blocks: Major companies are using prisoners as cheap labour through secretive …