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  1. 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.
  2. Addiction and Control
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Prisons are very profitable. There are private prisons nowadays. The people that own them have, as their mission, first and foremost, the making of money. They need as many people as possible in prison to maximize their profits. They also need to spend as little as possible on the inmates and staff. Thus, America has over 2.3 million people incarcerated; more than any other country.
  3. 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.
  4. Allow the Water
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    The author shares his Christian vision of radical social transformation to develop a society based on the gospels of Jesus. Included are the stories of famous others who have also gone through social transformation, such as Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., J.S. Woodsworth, Jim and Shirley Douglas and members of the White Rose Movement.
  5. Alternatives
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    A poster, brochure, and information on jail chaplaincies and the corrections system.
  6. Another World is Possible
    Globalization and Anti-capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
  7. Attica: The Nightmare That Never Ends
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Today, the incarcerated population in the U.S. has mushroomed to some 2.4 million, seven times the number in 1971, not least as a result of the racist "war on drugs." The prison population grew massively in the 1970s and 1980s in direct proportion to the sharp decline in unionized manufacturing jobs, a measure of how the bourgeoisie has deemed whole layers of the ghetto and barrio masses "surplus." Prisons and jails represent, in concentrated form, the brutality of this racist capitalist society, with severe dehumanization and oppressive conditions directed against an already marginalized and demoralized population.
  8. 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.
  9. Briefe aus dem Gefangnis
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1946
  10. Business is Booming for the Prison Profiteers
    The GEO Group Cashes In
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Though GEO (formerly Wackenhut) is hardly a household name, they are a major player in the private corrections sector, combining a self righteous amorality in profiting from human misery with a ruthless sense of just how to make a buck in this business.
  11. Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib, and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Suffering caused through our wars including conditions inside US military camps, in Iraq, led to the extremism of Al-Baghdadi and his ISIS followers.
  12. 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.
  13. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  14. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  15. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  16. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  17. The Capital Punishment Debate
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1984
    The death penalty make us all complicit in killing, and degrades us as a society.
  18. The Case for Penal Abolition
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    A collection of essays on various aspects of the penal abolition movement and its arguments.
  19. Michael C. Chettleburgh
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  20. CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Over 60 inmates at New York's Clinton Correctional Facility have complained of abuse by prison guards in the wake of the June escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
  21. CIA Torture Tactics Reemerge in New York Prison
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Over 60 inmates at New York’s Clinton Correctional Facility have complained of abuse by prison guards in the wake of the June escape of convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt.
  22. Les Clochards et le systeme penal
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1980
  23. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  24. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  25. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  26. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  27. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  28. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  29. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  30. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  31. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  32. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  33. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  34. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  35. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  36. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  37. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  38. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  39. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  40. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  41. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  42. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  43. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  44. Counterpunch
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Progressive U.S. website/newsletter.
  45. 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.
  46. Crime
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
  47. 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.
  48. Crime and Punishment
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1903
    Let us have done with this savage idea of punishment, which is without wisdom. Let us work for the freedom of man from the oppressions which make criminals, and for the enlightened treatment of all the sick.
  49. 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.
  50. Criminal Justiice
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  51. Don Jail
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    The Don Jail is a former jail in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located to the east of the Don River, on Gerrard Street East in Riverdale. The "Don Gaol" was built between 1858 and 1864, with a new wing being built in the 1950s. The jail originally had a capacity of 184 inmates and was separated into an east wing for the men and west wing for the women.
  52. 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.
  53. End the Prison-Industrial Complex, Now!
    A Moral and Political Crime
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    In both political and moral terms, ending this prison industrial complex system is an imperative. As in the 1950s and 1960s, we must organize, mobilize and go into the streets. The existing system is the problem, not the solution.
  54. Escape from Camp 14
    The first political prisoner born in a North Korean labour camp to make it past the fence and flee
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    An excerpt from a book of the same title narrating the harrowing experiences of Shin Dong-hyuk. He is believed to be the only camp-born person to have escaped the North Korean prison labor camps that detain up to two hundred-thousand political prisoners.
  55. 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.
  56. 40 Reasons Our Jails and Prisons Are Full of Black and Poor People
    It's Not Just About Crime!
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Quigley provides a list of reasons why the majority of prisoners in US jails are Black and poor people.
  57. G4S To End Israel Prison Contracts Following Protests
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    G4S, the Anglo-Danish security contractor, has agreed to withdraw from prison work in Israel after activists disrupted the company annual general meeting for the second year in a row. The company is also under fire for ill-treatment of detainees in the UK, including the death of an Angolan man.
  58. 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.
  59. Govt to take over MTC prison
    Private Jail Operation Contract Not Renewed
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
  60. Guantanamo North
    Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    After September 11, 2001, Canadian governments made significant changes to the law so that non-citizens with suspected links to terrorism could be held indefinitely with no due process. The Courts held that these and other changes including "judicial interrogations" and "convictions for terrorism without intent" are consistent with the Charter of Rights. The range of state secrecy extends now to everything related to national security. Diab contends that these measures are unnecessary and contrary to human rights and freedom.
  61. Harter's Precept: Review of The Social Misconstruction of Reality: Validity and Verification in the Scholarly Community
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
    Hamilton gives three major examples of erroneous theses that gained the status of fact in social science despite the absence of evidentiary support: (1) Max Weber's thesis that the Protestant Ethic spurred the advance of capitalism; (2) the widely accepted thesis that Hitler's main electoral support came from the lower middle classes (the despised petit bourgeoisie of Marxism); and (3) Michel Foucault's thesis that the modern prison evolved not as a more humane alternative to the cruel physical punishments of earlier centuries, but as part of a wide-ranging scheme by sinister forces to enforce a pervasive social conformity.
  62. 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.
  63. How Canada’s Prisons Killed Ashley Smith
    A National Crime and Shame
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
  64. 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.
  65. 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.
  66. 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."
  67. 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.
  68. Inside Halden, the most humane prison in the world
    Amelia Gentleman visits Halden, the high-security jail in Norway
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A look into the flagship prison of Norway, where recidivism after two years is only 20%, and the focus is on rehabilitation rather than punishment.
  69. 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.
  70. The Letters of Rosa Luxemburg
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2011
    Blending a passionate sensibility and a steely intellect with an unshakeable commitment to revolutionary socialism, Rosa Luxemburg is one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. In this comprehensive collection selection of Luxemburg's letters, her political concerns are revealed alongside the story of a vivid inner life.
  71. Louisiana's For-Profit Prisons
    How Long Jail Sentences for Trivial Offences Enrich Local Sheriffs' and Police Departments
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In Louisiana, writing a cheque that bounces still carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, and the minimum sentence for a repeat burglary offender is 24 years without parole.
  72. 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.
  73. The Man Died
    The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  74. 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.
  75. 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
  76. 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.
  77. 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.
  78. Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901- 1941
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    Victor Serge, who was bron in 1890 and died in 1947, was an anarchist, a Bolshevik, a Trotskyist, and a revisionist-Marxist. Belgian by birth and upbringing, French by adoption and in literary expression, Russian by parentage and later by citizenship, he eventually became stateless and was put down as a Spanish national for purposes of his funeral documents. He was a journalist, a poet, a pamphleteer, a historian, a political prisoner, an agitator, and a novelist.
  79. Men in Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1931
    Victor Serge's novel based on his own experiences as a politcal prisoner.
  80. A Microcosm of the Nation - Control Unit Prisons
    Out of Control
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A review of 'Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons' by Nancy Kurshan.
  81. Migrant Justice Groups Call for Overhaul of Immigration Detention after Secret Red Cross Report Released
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Migrant justice coalition the End Immigration Detention Network (EIDN) is calling for an end to maximum security imprisonment of immigrants without trial or charges after a secret Red Cross report on deplorable detention conditions became public.
  82. Mumia Abu-Jamal's Radio Broadcasts - Archive
    Resource Type: Audio
    An archive of Mumia Abu-Jamal's radio essays and commentaries.
  83. 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.
  84. Native Sons
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  85. New Internationalist
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
  86. 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.
  87. Not at liberty
    Jails (and gaols), Central Prison, the Mercer Reformatory, and the Asylum
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    A history of prisons, reformatories, asylums and mental health facilities in Toronto and their relationship with the populace, detailing and criticizing the implications of attitudes and approaches to mental health by the cities institutions.
  88. Obama Crowned Himself on New Year's Eve
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
  89. Obama signs police state legislation
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Militarism and aggressive war abroad go hand in hand with authoritarianism and dictatorship at home.
  90. 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.
  91. 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.
  92. One Woman Army
    The Life of Claire Culhane
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A biography of Claire Culhane, member of the Canadian Communist Party, crusader for prison abolition, and peace activist opposed to the Vietnam war.
  93. 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
  94. Our Generation
    Volume 21 Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  95. Outsourcing racism: Bill C-31, Prison Expansion, and the Detention of Immigrants
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act, CBSA may arrest and detain a foreign national or permanent resident they deem a threat to public safety, a potential flight risk, unable to substantiate their identity, or a threat to “national security.” Despite the regular invocation of migrants as potentially dangerous and as “criminal,” in reality the overwhelming majority of detainees (94.2%) are held for reasons entirely unrelated to questions of security. Indeed, entire families, including young children, are currently imprisoned in Canadian detention centers.
  96. 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."
  97. The Police and Court System: Neoliberal America's Tax Collectors
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Last week Biloxi, Mississippi became the latest city to be sued by the ACLU for running a "modern-day debtors’ prison."
  98. Police - Prisons: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
  99. Political Prisoners in the Sacrifice Zone of Empire
    Mumia Abu-Jamal and Jeremy Hammond
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Recently, two cases concerning the constitutional rights of people in prison came to public light. They involve two U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal who is serving a life sentence at a facility in Frackville, Pennsylvania and Jeremy Hammond, who is serving a ten year sentence at a federal prison in Manchester, Kentucky.
  100. 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.
  101. Position Paper of Moratorium Committee on Prison Construction
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
  102. Prison Abolition & Alternatives
    Nine Perspectives for Prison Abolitionists
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    A argument for the abolition of prisons and a discussion of alternatives.
  103. Prison Food
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
    "Not for Human Consumption." The author, who saw that label himself when he was incarcerated, calls out a widespread human rights violation being committed in U.S. prisons.
  104. 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.
  105. Prison organising
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    If you're struggling for a better world, there is a chance that someone you know or even you yourself could go to prison. Thousands of people have been jailed for standing up for themselves and their communities - be they strikers, anti-war demonstrators, non-payers of unfair taxes.
  106. Prison survival guide
    A guide to surviving prison or preparing yourself to go to prison
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
  107. 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.
  108. Prisoners' Rights Group
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
  109. 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.
  110. 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.
  111. Quotes about Law and Crime
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  112. Red Emma Speaks
    Selected Writings and Speeches by Emma Goldman
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A collection of essays which provide a comprehensive view of Emma Goldman's theories and beliefs.
  113. Rendition ordeal raises new questions about secret trials
    Fatima Bouchar's story reveals involvement of the British government
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Investigative reporting on the rendition (initiated by British intelligence officers) of Libyian Islamist militants who sought to oust Muammar Gaddafi.
  114. The Return of Commercial Prison Labour
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Prisons are seldom mentioned under the rubric of labour market institutions such as temporary work contracts or collective bargaining agreements. Yet, prisons not only employ labour but also cast a shadow on the labour force in or out of work. The early labour movement considered the then prevalent use of prison labour for commercial purposes as unfair competition. By the 1930s, the U.S. labour movement was strong enough to have work for commercial purposes prohibited in prisons.
  115. Rights activist arrested over tweet about prison torture
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Reporters Without Borders condemns renewed efforts by the Bahraini authorities to censor online information, including leading human rights defender Nabeel Rajab's latest arrest on 2 April and attempts to suppress information about the mistreatment
  116. St. Leonard's Society of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  117. The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The United States, with just 5 percent of the world’s population, currently holds 25 percent of the world's prisoners, and for the last 30 years America’s business entrepreneurs have found a lucrative way to cash in on the incarceration surplus: private for-profit prisons.
  118. The Smile of Policeman Agadi
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    An account of the abuse of Palestinian political prisoners in the Israeli prison system.
  119. 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.
  120. Soledad Brother
    Resource Type: Book
  121. 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.
  122. 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.
  123. Statement of Claire Culhane, Provincial Court, New Westminster, B.C.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    This is a statement by Claire Culhane in provincial court where she pleaded not guilty to a charge of trespassing on penitentiary land.
  124. The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
    Resource Type: Article
  125. Submission to the Sub-Committee on the Penitentiary Systems In Canada Hearings
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    A list of recommendations on how to fix certain issues in the prison system.
  126. Through the Labyrinth of Steel Doors
    A Weekend in Texas
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Visiting a friend in a Texas prison.
  127. Too Few To Count
    Canadian Women in Conflict with the Law
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  128. Traditional Aboriginal Spirituality Within the Prison System
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
  129. 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.
  130. Treating Mental Health Patients as Criminals
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The criminalisation of the mentally ill is one of the cruellest and most easily avoidable tragedies of our era.
  131. 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.
  132. 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.
  133. US soldier faces court martial for trying to stop Haiti abuses
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1995
  134. Violence Today
    Actually Existing Barbarism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Looks at violence in many contexts: violence by men against women, violence by the state in inner cities, prisons, politically motivated violence and terror and the superabundance of weapons. Reflection is given to the sources of imperialism and globalized capitalism. The opening essay offers an overview of the scale and variety of contemporary violence while also taking up once again the question of socialism versus barbarism. Other essays analyze the nature and roots of paradigmatic cases and types of violence today around the world. Several essays deal from various different standpoints, with the still important question of whether violence has any place in socialist strategy in the context of today's actually-existing barbarism.
  135. 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.
  136. We're All Doing Time
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
  137. 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'.
  138. 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.
  139. Writers in Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    An analysis of the work of imprisoned writers.

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