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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Les Clochards et le systeme penal
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
- 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.
- 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.
- Empire Abroad, Empire At Home
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The institutions and ideas U.S. elites used to project "full spectrum dominance" onto the global stage have eventually become part of the political order in the U.S. It is empire -- most of all -- that dooms democracy. As corporations have an insatiable drive for profit, empires have an insatiable drive for power.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Mass Incarceration for Profit
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In the face of growing public criticism and improved technologies, companies like Securus search for new ways to remain competitive while marketing themselves as providers of a quality service that keeps the public safe. Yet with the involvement of global financial houses in the prison industrial complex, the pressure mounts to produce value for shareholders. Ultimately, this systematically incentivizes mass incarceration. While we often hear about the activities of private prison providers like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and the GEO Group, corporate interests are immersed in every aspect of criminal justice.
- 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.
- 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.
- Position Paper of Moratorium Committee on Prison Construction
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- St. Leonard's Society of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- Too Few To Count
Canadian Women in Conflict with the Law
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
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