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Topic Prisons/Prisoners : 169 results | page 1 of 17 pages
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In Russian And French Prisons - George Woodcock (Introduction by) and Peter Kropotkin
Nearly a century has passed since Kropotkin wrote In Russian and French Prisons, yet his criticisms of the penal system have lost none of their relevance. Prisons- far from reforming the offender, or deterring crime- are, in themselves, "schools of crime". Every year, thousands of prisoners are returned to society without hope, without a trade, or without nay means of subsistence, and statistics show that on...
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Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex - Nat Smith (Editor) and Eric A. Stanley (Editor)
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Pathologized, terrorized, and confined, trans/gender non-conforming and queer folks have always struggled against the enormity of the prison industrial complex. The first collection of its kind, Eric A. Stanley and Nat Smith bring together current and former prisoners, activists, and academics to offer new ways for understan...
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A Plague of Prisons: The Epidemiology of Mass Incarceration in America - Ernest Drucker
When Dr. John Snow first traced an outbreak of cholera to a water pump in the Soho district of London in 1854, the field of epidemiology was born. Taking the same public health approaches and tools that have successfully tracked epidemics of flu, tuberculosis, and AIDS over the intervening one hundred and fifty years, Ernest Drucker makes the case that our current unprecedented level of imprisonment has beco...
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Fire To The Prisons - Fire to the Prisons Collective (Editor)
Fire to the Prisons is an insurrectionary anarchist quarterly focusing on anti-prison and prisoner support content, but also includes articles to inspire opposition to this cold world.
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Excessive Force: A Comix Anthology Against the Police - Edd Baldry (Editor)
"Police everywhere justice nowhere"—a comix anthology against the police!

Excessive Force is Last Hours' first comic antholopgy and features seventeen international illustrators. Whether drawing on personal experiences or imagined scenarios of modern policing, one them runs through: a shared view of brutal, oppressive policing, policing that does more harm than good, and a system that hin...
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The People's Lawyer: The Center for Constitutional Rights and the Fight for Social Justice, From Civil Rights to Guantanamo - Albert Ruben
There is hardly a struggle aimed at upholding and extending the rights embedded in the U.S. Constitution in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) has not played a central role. Whether defending the rights of black people in the South, opponents of the war in Vietnam, and victims of torture worldwide, or fighting illegal actions of the U.S. government, the CCR has stood ready to take on all comers...
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Between the Fences: Before Guantanamo, there was Port Isabel Service Processing Center - Tony Hefner
Something at the Texas detention facility is terribly wrong, and Tony Hefner knows it. But the guards are repeatedly instructed not to speak of anything they witness. In the Rio Grande Valley, one of the most poverty-stricken areas in the United States, good jobs are scarce and the detention facility pays the best wages for a hundred miles. The guards follow orders and keep quiet.

For six years, Tony ...
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Green is the New Red: An Insider's Account of a Social Movement Under Siege - Will Potter
At a time when everyone is going green, most people are unaware that the FBI is using anti-terrorism resources to target environmentalists. Here is a guided tour into an underground world of radical activism and an introduction to the shadowy figures behind the headlines. But here also is the story of how everyday people are prevented from speaking up for what they believe in. Like the Red Scare, this "Green...
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Lucasville: The Untold Story of a Prison Uprising, 2nd edition - Staughton Lynd
Now in a new edition!

In telling the story of one of the longest prison uprisings in U.S. history, in which hundreds of inmates seized a major area of an Ohio correctional facility, this chronicle examines the causes of the disturbance, what happened during its 11-day duration, and the fairness of the trials in the aftermath of the rioting. Recounted from the prisoners' side and viewed through a lawye...
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Defying the Tomb: Selected Prison Writings and Art of Kevin "Rashid" Johnson - Outlaw (Contributor) and Kevin "Rashid" Johnson
Follow the author's odyssey from lumpen drug dealer to prisoner, to revolutionary New Afrikan, a teacher and mentor, one of a new generation rising of prison intellectuals. This book consists primarily of letters between Rashid and Outlaw, another revolutionary New Afrikan prisoner, smuggled between the segregation wing and general population over a period of months. These comrades educate themselves - and u...
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