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Hurt

Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy

Kristen Williams

Hurt is Portland activist Kristian Williams' collection of articles and interviews on the history, psychology, and current state of torture in democratic societies. Williams, author of...

Captive Genders e-book

Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Nat Smith & Eric A. Stanley

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,...

Marshall Law e-book

The Life and Times of a Baltimore Black Panther

Eddie Conway

In 1970, the feds framed Eddie Conway for the murder of a Baltimore City Police officer. He was 24 years old. They threw him in prison, took him away from his family, his friends, and his...

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,...

Captive Genders

Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Nat Smith & Eric A. Stanley

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,...

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...

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....