- An Abortion Doctor's Jailhouse Journal
Against The Current vol. 141
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
With Dr. Tiller’s death, we are painfully reminded of how “abortion doctors” are subject to ongoing harassment and even death. The question of what motivates such doctors to continue to provide abortions is once again front and center.
- Abu-Jamal, Mumia
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An African-American activist who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. His conviction was based on dubious evidence and dubious legal proceedings. (Born 1954).
- An Addict, a Confessed Killer and Now a Debut Author
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Despite the voluminous literature produced in prisons very little contemporary prison literature is released by major publishing houses, which are wary of the controversial and ethical pitfalls associated with publishing works by convicts.
- All Politics is Local
Election night in Peru's largest prison
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Daniel Alarcon explores the internal politics of Peru's largest prison.
- American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi on hunger strike for past five days
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Roxana Saberi, the young American-Iranian journalist who was sentenced to eight years in prison on a spying charge in Tehran on 18 April, has been on hunger strike for the past five days.
- America's Own Political Prisoners
From Mandela to Oscar López Rivera
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Nelson Mandela's death has elicited a predictable outpouring of accolades. Glowing praise is now coming from American politicians as disparate as Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama. But this praise comes with the recasting, perhaps rebranding, of the amazing man that was Nelson Mandela.
- Assessing the hidden costs to families when a parent is in prison
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The federal government's omnibus crime bill, currently being debated by the Senate, has launched a widespread conversation in Canada about the justice and penal systems. While the commentary and analysis has covered a number of different perspectiv
- Barred from Prison
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
An account of what occured inside the B.C. Penitentiary during a prison uprising in September 1976.
- Berkman, Alexander
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Anarchist known for his political activism and writing. (1870-1936).
- Blogger jailed for insulting leaders dies in Iran's Evin prison
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for an immediate investigation into the March 18 death of an Iranian blogger imprisoned in Tehran's notorious Evin prisonâ##.
- Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Commonwealth of Thieves
The Improbable Birth of Australia
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A history of the first four years of the convict settlement in Australia, examining the interplay of soldiers, convicts, and Aborigines.
- A Community Release Centre for Whitehorse
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Converse
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
The role of church people in the correctional system.
- Convict and Immigrant Detainee Struggles Converge in Strike Wave
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
There was a time in the United States when it was not only common knowledge, but commonly reported, legislated, and adjudicated that crime is a function of poverty. This went out sometime during the Carter Administration, its demise heralded by the appearance in 1975 of James Q. Wilson's Thinking About Crime, where he first aired the broken-windows theory,which holds that punishment has to be harsh for minor violations of public order to incentivize criminals against larger violations.
- Crayons of Askalan
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
In 1975, at the age of fifteen, Palestinian artist Zuhdi Al Adaw is sentenced and confined in the high security prison of Askalan, Israel for fifteen years. With the help of his fellow prisoners and their families, he manages to stay alive by smuggling in colour crayons and smuggling out his allegorical artwork done on pillowcases, so it finds its way to the outside world.
- Crime
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Crime and Criminals
Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1902
So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousands of poor people to jail. So long as men are allowed to monopolize all the earth, and compel others to live on such terms as these men see fit to make, then you are bound to get into jail.
- Crime and Punishment in America
Why the Solutions to America's Most Stubborn Social Crisis Have Not Worked... and What Will
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Currie explores why being 'tough on crime' will only serve to exacerbate the problem.
- Eugene V. Debs Internet Archive
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Eugene Victor Debs (1855-1926).
- Diary of Prison and Torture
Book review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Book review of Mohamedou Ould Slahi's 'Guantánamo Diary.'
- Disobedience
Introduction to the January 22, 2017 issue of Other Voices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey.
- A Drone Protestor Heads to Jail
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out.
- A Duty of Honour
Against Capital Punishment
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
The existing penal system, which is permeated through and through with the brutal class spirit and barbarism of capitalism, must be extirpated root and branch.
- The Eithics of the Use of Recently Developed Mind/Behaviour Control Mechanisms By and On Convicted Criminals
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- Eye for an Eye
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
Four inmates talk about the American penal system over 50 years of rehabilitation and the corruption inherent of the prison system.
- Florida School for Boys
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The Florida School for Boys, also known as the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys (AGDS), was a reform school operated by the state of Florida in the panhandle town of Marianna from January 1, 1900, to June 30, 2011.
- Four Al-Jazeera journalists arrested arbitrarily in Cairo
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Reporters Without Borders condemns the arrests of four Al-Jazeera journalists by the Egyptian secret police in Cairo and calls for their immediate and unconditional release.
- Going up the River
Travels in a Prison Nation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
On the prisons in America, their unprofitable nature, and their ineffectiveness. Hallinan also explores the workings of mostly-white towns that host prisons of predominately black inmates.
- The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Herman's House
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
'What kind of house does a man who has been imprisoned in a six-foot-by-nine-foot cell for over 30 years dream of?' This film captures the remarkable creative journey and friendship of Herman Wallace, one of the Angola 3, and artist Jackie Sumell while examining the injustice of prolonged solitary confinement.
- How Canada’s Prisons Killed Ashley Smith
A National Crime and Shame
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
- How to locate a person held in the U.S. prison or immigration detention systems
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Tracing the trail of prisoners incarcerated in the United States can be complicated, but the reward for patient and thorough searching is getting information that would have been much more difficult to find before the availability of online government databases. And equally important are the contact numbers on these web pages, which you can call to confirm or to request additional information.
- A human rights activist, a secret prison and a tale from Xi Jinping's new China
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Peter Dahlin tells the story of his incarceration and expulsion from the People's Republic of China, where he spent 23 days in a 'black prison' in Beijing and was deprived of sleep and questioned with a 'communication enhancement' machine.
- The Humiliation of Bradley Manning
Kangaroos Missing
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
It is a bitter irony that Army Pvt. Bradley Manning, whose conscience compelled him to leak evidence about the U.S. military brass ignoring evidence of torture in Iraq, was himself the victim of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment while other military officers privately took note but did nothing.
- Hunger-Striking Friends of Man Who Died in Immigration Custody Speak Out
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
One week after the death of a 39 year old, Abdurahman Ibrahim Hassan at the hands of Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), immigrants imprisoned without trial or charges along with their families, and friends are refusing food today inside and out
- I Am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now
The Denial of My Parole
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence.
- IFJ urges Hamas to release a Palestinian journalist held incommunicado
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today backed its affiliate, the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate (PJS), in urging Hamas to immediately release Palestinian journalist Shadi Ahmad Shaker Shaheen
- Immigration detainees re-start hunger fast; hundreds rally outside Lindsay jail
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Immigration detainees at the Centre East Correctional Centre, some of whom who have been indefinitely held for as long as seven years are calling for their release and an end to indefinite detention and maximum security incarceration.
- In Conflict with the Law
Women and the Canadian Justice System
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Critique of women and the Canadian justice system. Written from a feminist perspective, the collection is organized into three thematic sextions: Federal Imprisonment of Women -- Past, Present and Future; Images and Realities -- Profiles of Women Offenders; and Theoretical Considerations about Women in Conflict with the Law."
- In Russian and French Prisons
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails.
- Incarcerated Inside Israel
Palestinians Tortured and Isolated
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation, and denial of access to appropriate health care, such is the Israeli judicial system and prison confinement experienced by Palestinian men, women and indeed children.
- Inmate's Rights
A Handbook of prisoners: Rights and Obligations in Newfoundland and Labrador
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
- An Inside Look at Our Penal System
Review of Go-Boy! Memoirs of a Life Behind Bars, by Roger Caron
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
GO-BOY! can be read as a major social document which cries out for long–overdue prison reforms in Canada. It's a major contribution to prison literature and criminology. But GO-BOY!, like much concentration camp literature, can also be read and appreciated as a forceful witness to survival in hell. Caron has been there and come back to life whole, human and still fighting.
- Jailed immigrants begin historic boycott of Detention Reviews
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Immigration detainees at the Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Central North Correctional Centre in Penetanguishene and Toronto's Metro West Detention Centre are starting a historical month-long boycott of their detention reviews
- Kengir uprising
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A prisoner uprising that took place in the Soviet prison labor camp Kengir in May and June 1954.
- Kids for cash scandal
Wikipedia article
Resource Type: Article
The "kids for cash" scandal unfolded in 2008 over judicial kickbacks at the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA. Two judges, President Judge Mark Ciavarella and Senior Judge Michael Conahan, were convicted of accepting money from Robert Mericle, builder of two private, for-profit youth centers for the detention of juveniles, in return for contracting with the facilities and imposing harsh adjudications on juveniles brought before their courts to increase the number of residents in the centers.
- Louisiana prisoner released after 41 years in solitary
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Herman Wallace, who is dying of cancer, endured long legal battles after his 1972 murder conviction.
- Mahjoub marks 14 years of being jailed without charge in Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A Toronto father of two and refugee from Egypt, Mohammad Mahjoub is marking 14 years of his detention without charge. Mr. Mahjoub is held under a ‘security certificate’, a highly criticized part of the immigration law that allows the government
- Make the Don a Museum of Horrors
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
A museum depicting what prison is really like might motivate us to demand radical changes to the way we deal with offenders.
- The Man Died
The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- The Man Who Was Chemically Tortured
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The torture of David Hicks at Guantanamo.
- Mass Incarceration
New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, Lewis analyzes racial and class disparities in incarceration.
- Mass Incarceration and Black Oppression in America
The New Jim Crow and Liberal Reformism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The singular focus on mass incarceration as the embodiment of racial oppression has a purpose: it poses the fight for black freedom as a matter of "dismantling" that system, much as the civil rights movement dismantled Jim Crow. But mass black incarceration is both a symptom and a means of enforcing the special oppression of black people that is fundamental to American capitalism
- Maximum, Minimum, Medium
A Journey Through Canadian Prisons
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
Serving a nine-year sentence, Melnitzer documented his experience in three different prisons, along with his own introspections.
- Memoirs from the Women's Prison
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Nawal El Saadawi was imprisoned in 1981 by Anwar Sadat for alleged "crimes against the State." She offers both firsthand witness to women's resistance to state violence and insights into the formation of women's community. Saadawi describes how political prisoners, both secular intellectuals and Islamiists, forged alliances to demand better conditions.
- Men in Prison
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1931
Victor Serge's novel based on his own experiences as a politcal prisoner.
- A Mother's Story
The Fight To Free My Son David
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- Mumia Abu-Jamal's Radio Broadcasts - Archive
Resource Type: Audio
An archive of Mumia Abu-Jamal's radio essays and commentaries.
- My Freedom, Your Freedom
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Knowing nothing but drugs and violence since childhood, Kuebra and Salema have spent their adult years in and out of a Berlin prison, their experiences calling into question the effectiveness of incarceration.
- The Native Inmate in Ontario -- A Preliminary Survey
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
The above study was conducted jointly by the Ontario Native Council on Justice, together with the Planning and Research Branch of the Ministry of Correctional Services in Ontario.
- Native Sons
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
- Nelson Mandela
The Struggle Is My Life
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
This is an updated account of Nelson Mandela's speeches and political writings from both his days as leader of the African Congress Youth League in 1944 to his release from prison in 1990. The excerpts from his trial are riveting and revealing of the governments mind-set on apertheid. Mandela emerges as a man with patience, thoughtfulness and character. The text is enhanced with an index and new photographs.
- Nelson Small Legs Jr. Foundation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
A foundation set up to help native ex-offenders to integrate into society.
- New report documents "a living death" in US prisons
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The American Civil Liberties Union has issued a massive report that meticulously documents the unconstitutional practice of life imprisonment without parole in federal and state prisons in the US.
- NGO gains access to Guantanamo documents but double standard still prevails
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release of Department of Defence documents on 2 March that shed light on the Bush administration’s policies on the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
- 1976 Prisoner of Conscience Week Booklet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
A list of 14 prisoners on conscience. Chosen for Prisoner of Conscience Week.
- Obama and the Boy in the Metal Box
The Incarceration of John Walker Lindh
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Clemency for John Walker Lindh would open up to public scrutiny an outrageous injustice that high officials in the Bush administration deliberately perpetrated on an American citizen after the 9/11 attacks. It would expose how they covered up their illegalities by betraying the legal professionalism of the Justice Department and by imprisoning their victim behind prison walls for half his life.
- Obama's Liberty Problem
Why Indefinite Detention By Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order will threaten the liberty of every single US citizen who is not in Guantanamo because it will damage the due process guarantees which have built up over the years to protect each one of us.
- Oh! How -- German is this Revolution!
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
The existing penal system, breathing the spirit of brutal class-spirit and capitalist barbarism must be torn up by the roots. A fundamental system of prison-reform must be inaugurated immediately.
- One Thousand Years of Solitude
Life in the SHU
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Indefinite solitary confinement: a large-scale experiment in sensory deprivation and social isolation.
- Ontario finally allows Red Cross investigation of immigration jails, but deaths and indefinite imprisonment continues
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
End Immigration Detention Network welcomes the decision to allow Red Cross access to Ontario’s provincial prisons for the first time since 2008. However, the lack of any real oversight of prison conditions of immigration detainees adds to the dire
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 21, 2015
A Healthier Planet
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
With the start of the growing season in much of the Northern hemisphere, Other Voices digs up articles and resources related to urban agriculture and local food production. Urban agriculture - growing food in and around cities - is a response to the problems created by industrial agriculture, a chemical-dependent industry shipping food thousands of miles from where it is produced to where it will be consumed. We also mark the release of Omar Khadr, the former child soldier who was abused, tortured, and imprisoned first by the U.S. government and then by Canada. Other articles look at the advances made by women in Latin America, privilege politics, and the myths of peaceful protests.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 22, 2017
Disobedience
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Ultimately all power structures depend on the obedience of those over whom they rule. It helps if people believe in the legitimacy of those who wield power, but the crucial thing is obedience. Once people start to disobey in significant numbers, the dynamic of power changes fundamentally. Disobedience, especially on a large scale, shakes the power of the rulers, and increases the power of those who disobey. Disobedience is the theme of this issue.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 28, 2017
Resisting Injustice
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
In this issue, we look at the relentless persistence of people challenging injustice and entrenched power in places around the world, including Palestine, Korea, China, Canada, and the United States. We spotlight the hunger strike by Palestinian political prisoners languishing in Israeli prisons, workers’ strikes in China, and people in South Korea taking on a corrupt government. In the United States, the Equal Justice Initiative is collecting soil from places where blacks were lynched as a way of remembering their lives and the brutally racist society that murdered them. An article on recent terrorist attacks in Britain asks what underlies ideological violence and sociopathic rage. Ralph Nader asks why people who are supposed to be professional questioners avoid asking hard questions of those in power.
- Penal transportation
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The deporting of convicted criminals to a penal colony. Examples include transportation by France to Devil's Island and by the UK to its colonies in the Americas, from the 1610s through the American Revolution in the 1770s, and then to Australia between 1788 and 1868.
- The Perpetual Punitive Machine Backfires
Not Very Smart
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Our nation has a penchant for creating unnecessary complexity and obstacles for its people in areas such as the tax, health insurance and student debt miasmas. The prison industry adds to this with what it euphemistically calls "collateral consequences."
- Petition for the Immediate Release of all Prisoners of Conscience
1977: Prisoners of Conscience Year
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
During 1977, Amnesty International is attempting to bring the situation of prisoners of conscience into stronger international focus. As part of this effort they are circulating a petition for which they hope to get one million signatures.
- The Politics of Prisons and Prisoners
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
They are getting ready to activate another super-max prison. Like Pelican Bay, Marion, and Florence, this prison will be dedicated to holding people in solitary confinement. They say it is for "the worst of the worst" , but we know it refers to political prisoners.
- Predicting Torture
The PATRIOT Act, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Bradley Manning is charged with leaking classified documents to Wikileaks and faces a court martial. The conditions of his confinement are extreme, and amount to torture.
- Prison Journals of a Priest revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A collection of interviews, meditations and reflections on the current American prison system from the perspectives of past and current inmates. Berrigan, a political prisoner in Connecticut, shares thoughts about his radical activities, the inadequacy of the legal system, the failure of the prison system to rehabilitate, the meaning of true church reform, and the future of the radical movement in the US.
- Prisoner support guide
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
If you’re active in a group or campaign why not choose one or two prisoners to consistently support. Pass cards round meetings, send useful stuff, knock up a flyposter and get their case some publicity if they could use it, get in touch with the prisoner’s support group if there is one. Of course you can take this on as an individual, too.
- Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
The story of Timmerman's 30 months as a political prisoner under the Argentine dictatorship in the 1970s.
- Prisoners of the Good Fight
The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
Resource Type: Book
This book tells of the hope young Americans had to stop Hitler and Mussolini in Spain, how they were captured, and what happened to them after their capture. It reveals the amazing breaks which allowed some to survive, and how the survivors organized in the concentration camps and prisons to resist fascist brutality and indoctrinization and to maintain their morale and health.
- Prisoners' Rights Group
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Prisons Full of Innocents
The Big Lockup
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The number of convictions and the lengths of sentences has increased and some men have been wrongly convicted of crimes they simply did not commit.
- Prisons in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
Gosselin provides a political and historical view of the prison system and its inherent contradictions. He argues that the penal system is used by the State to maintain its authority. He remarks on corporations, the press and the parole board and the difference in their treatment and coverage of prisoners and prisons. He sees the penal system as a morally bankrupt bureaucracy which threatens future incarceration for many people that the economy cannot absorb.
- Privately run prisoner transport company kept detainees schackedl for 18 days
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
The inhumane treatment of people by a prisoner transport company puts into question the use of privately hired companies, where incentive to pick up as many detainees as possible for financial gain supercedes the basic human rights of their charges.
- Quaker Prison Committee
A series of reflections by Ruth Morris, director of Canadian Friends Service Committee
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
A look at two case histories vis. the bail system and pre-trial treatment of those charged.
- Release To Those In Prison
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Resistance
One Woman's Defiance in Occupied France
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
The memoir of a French resistance fighter and museum worker who chronicles the undergroud network of resistance in Paris during the occupation. She then chronicles her imprisonment and the slave labour she endured in Germany. The final section of her memoir recounts her release by the Americans and the time she spent helping them hunt Nazis after the war.
- Review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
A book review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- RSF calls for release of six journalists sentenced to life imprisonment
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
While Egypt's president has just claimed on CNN that his country enjoys unprecedented freedom of expression, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) points out that tomorrow a court will begin hearing the appeals of six unjustly detained journalists
- St. Leonard's Society of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Salvadoran Women Respond to Violence with Community Service, Music, and Individual Efforts
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Outside of the peace negotiations that resound in the media and governmental organizations, one of the strongest solutions to the scourge of gang violence in El Salvador has come from individual initiatives and groups dedicated to women. This work with female youth and ex-gang members, both in and outside of prison, is part of a movement that seeks to collaborate with peace processes in which women have rarely been taken into account. At the same time, it addresses the social structure that intensifies violence against women.
- Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons
Mahoney, Henry Charles; Talbot, Frederick Arthur Ambrose
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1917
- The Smile of Policeman Agadi
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
An account of the abuse of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system.
- The Society of Captives
A Study of A Maximum Security Prison
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Sykes examines the prison as an operating social system.
- Sofri, Adriano
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Italian radical intellectual, a journalist and a writer. (Born 1942).
- Solitary Confinement FAQ
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Solitary confinement is the practice of isolating inmates in closed cells for 22-24 hours a day, virtually free of human contact, for periods of time ranging from days to decades.
- Sources welcomes Michael C. Chettleburgh - Astwood Strategy Corporation
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Sources welcomes a new member: Michael C. Chettleburgh - Astwood Strategy Corporation: Leading North American speaker, strategist and thought leader on street gangs, organized crime, corrections and related criminal justice matters.
- A statement against the immigration detention of children
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
As organizations and individuals that care about children, we believe that Canada should immediately cease the practice of placing children in immigration detention. These detainees include asylum seekers, refugees, Canadian citizens and non-citizens. Children range in age from newborns and toddlers to pre-teens and teenagers, some of whom are unaccompanied.
- The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
Resource Type: Article
- Terrorism, COINTELPRO, And The Black Panther Party
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
- The Threat of the Tag
Resource Type: Article
Tracking anklets for convicts are not a good way to alleviate prison overcrowding.
- Too Few To Count
Canadian Women in Conflict with the Law
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Traditional Aboriginal Spirituality Within the Prison System
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
- Traditional Aboriginal Spirituality Within the Prison System
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1984
Raises the issue of freedom of religion being denied to Native prison inmates who are not of Christian origin.
- Tunisian journalist in desert prison could die from untreated asthma attacks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Tunisian journalist Fahem Boukadous has been in extremely poor health since police arrested him on 15 July to begin serving a four-year jail sentence for covering protests in the Gafsa mining region of Tunisia.
- The Unbelievable Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement And Punishment for as Little as Reading a Book
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The majority of those in solitary confinement were given the punishment for nonviolent, low-level offenses such as having unauthorized books or disobeying an order or growing their mustaches too long.
- Unruly Women
The Politics of Confinement and Resistance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Investigates the ways in which women who transgress the social order are disciplined, punished, silenced and confined. Covers material from the witch hunts to contemporary discriminatory treatment of women by the state and its law enforcement agencies.
- Uyghur journalist and website editor sentenced to fifteen years in jail
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Reporters Without Borders said it was outraged at the harshness of a 15-year prison sentence handed down to journalist Gheyret Niyaz by a court in Urumqi, in Xinjiang province, China.
- We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza.
- Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison?
Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
- Wobblies & Zapatistas
Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
- The World's Most Fashionable Prison
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
Fashion designer Puey Quinones works with inmates in a Philipine prison to teach them how to sew, work with fabrics and see their ideas go from sketch to finished product.
- Writers in Prison
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
An analysis of the work of imprisoned writers.
Experts on Prisoners in the Sources Directory
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