Lockdown High

When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse

Annette Fuentes

School violence has fallen steadily for twenty years. Yet in schools throughout the United States, Annette Fuentes finds metal detectors and drug tests for aspirin, police profiling of students...

Pussy Riot!

A Punk Prayer for Freedom

Pussy Riot!

On February 21, 2012, five members of a Russian feminist punk collective Pussy Riot staged a performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. Dressed in brightly colored tights and...

Infrastructure Critical

Sacrifice at Toronto’s G8/G20 Summit

Greg Elmer

Much public debate ensued after the violence and police brutality that gripped Toronto in June 2010 during the G8/G20 Summit. It is now being revealed how the Conservative government’s stimulus...

Against Equality

Prisons Will Not Protect You

Ryan Conrad

Prisons Will Not Protect You takes a critical stance against the prison industrial complex and the systems of inequality and violence perpetuated by hate crime legislation. This archival...

The Road Map to Negotiations

Prison Writings III

Abdullah Öcalan

The Road Map to Negotiations is an extraordinary document. It was the centerpiece of the secret dialogue process between Abdullah Öcalan and the Turkish state that started in 2009...

A Time to Die

The Attica Prison Revolt

Tom Wicker

In September 1971 the inmates of Attica prison revolted, took hostages, and forced the authorities into four days of desperate negotiation. At the outset the rebels demanded—and were granted—the...

The New Jim Crow

Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

As the United States celebrates the nation's "triumph over race" with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or have been...

In Russian and French Prisons

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,...

Excessive Force

A Comix Anthology Against the Police

Edd Baldry

"Police everywhere justice nowhere"—a comix anthology against the police!Excessive Force is Last Hours' first comic anthology and features seventeen international illustrators....