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Sin Barras — ‘without (prison) bars’ in spanish — is a community-based group out of Santa Cruz that works to build coalitions to eradicate the prison industrial-complex. sin-barras-vol-1.pdf download PDF (2.4MB) [Click the image above to download and read our zine!] What is the prison industrial complex? The prison industrial complex (PIC) is a term […]
Prison officials must be so afraid of July 8 that they’re getting rattled. Their latest move is bizarre. This letter just from came from Abdul Shakur (James Harvey), who’s housed in the Pelican Bay SHU next door to Mutope (James Crawford), Sitawa (Ron Dewberry) and Arturo Castellanos: “My sista, this is just a quick missive to inform you […]
The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” then we are a nation of barbarians. Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Control units may vary from prison to prison but they can be generally characterized as: Permanently designated prisons or cells in prisons that lock prisoners up in solitary or small group confinement for 22 or more hours a day with no congregate dining, exercise or other services, and virtually no programs for prisoners. […]
“The torture technicians who developed the paradigm used in (prisons’) ‘control units’ realised that they not only had to separate those with leadership qualities, but also break those individuals’ minds and bodies and keep them separated until they are dead.” – Russell “Maroon” Shoats
(Interview conducted in New York City, September 27, 1992 and distributed by Arm the Spirit via e-mail for International Women’s Day 1995.) Q: The first question I have is, how did you get involved with the Black Panther Party (BPP)? I was going to college to be a doctor. The first year in college I […]
Malcolm X’s grandson, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, says that Blacks are murdered with impunity in the United States because the system is unjust, Press TV reports. WATCH THE INTERVIEW In an exclusive interview with Press TV on Monday, Shabazz commented on the murder of Black teenager Trayvon Martin, saying, “There are hundreds of Black Americans who […]
The Freedom Archives is happy to announce the arrival of Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons by Nancy Kurshan. This important book documents the decade and a half struggle of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown in challenging the barbaric practices at Marion Federal Prison in Illinois, opposing the […]
” There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. It’s like feeding a dog on his […]
