Lockdown America

Police And Prisons In The Age Of Crisis

Christian Parenti

Why is criminal 'justice' so central to American politics? Lockdown America not only documents the horrors and absurdities of militarized policing, prisons, a fortified border, and the...

The Prison-Industrial Complex and the Global Economy

Linda Evans

"Over 1.8 million people are currently behind bars in the United States. This represents the highest per capita incarceration rate in the history of the world. In 1995 alone, 150 new U.S. prisons...

Jailhouse Lawyers

Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA

Mumia Abu-Jamal

Award-winning journalist and death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal presents the stories and reflections of fellow prisoners who have learned to use the court system to advocate for themselves and other...

Prison Round Trip

Klaus Viehmann

"During the first five or six years of my imprisonment, I learned the survival strategies that got me through the last ten. These are the experiences I'm summarizing here." [Klaus Viehmann, from...

A Chronology of Injustice

The Case for Winston Silcott's Conviction To Be Overturned

Legal Action for Women

Winston Silcott, one of the Tottenham Three, whose conviction for P.C. Blakelock's murder was quashed in 1991, is serving a life sentence for the death of Anthony Smith even though evidence proves...

No More Prisons

On Urban Life, Homeschooling, Hip-Hop Leadership, the Cool Rich Kids Movement, Hitchhiking as Community Organizing, and Why Philanthropy is the the Greatest Art Form of the 21st Century!

William Upski Wimsatt

Having Bombed the Suburbs, Upski is now tearing down prison walls, both the walls of the concrete monsters popping up like mushrooms across the country and the other institutions which surround us....

Soon The Rest Will Fall

A Novel

Peter Plate

Slatts Calhoun and Robert Grogan saw things in San Quentin State Prison that were a far cry from the safe existence of working at a nine-to-five job, paying the mortgage, being married, and having...

When the Prisoners Ran Walpole

A True Story in the Movement for Prison Abolition

Jamie Bissonette

In 1971, Attica's prison yard massacre shocked the public, prisoners, and political leaders across the United States. Massachusetts residents pledged to prevent such slaughter from ever happening...

Let Freedom Ring

A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners

Matt Meyer

Let Freedom Ring presents a two-decade sweep of essays, analyses, histories, interviews, resolutions, People's Tribunal verdicts, and poems by and about the scores of U.S. political...