Organisations
• Empty Cages Collective: Anarchist collective building a movement to dismantle the prison industrial complex – www.prisonabolition.org
• Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee in Wales, Ireland, Scotland and England (WISE-RA): Prisoner union as part of the International Workers of the World. Organise various prisoner solidarity and prison labour campaigns – www.iwoc.iww.org.uk
• Smash IPP: Work with prisoners and prisoner families to free IPP (Imprisonment for Public Protection) prisoners who are serving life sentences for minor crimes – www.smashipp.noflag.org.uk
• Jengba: Joint Enterprise not guilty by association – a campaign fighting for people convicted for joint enterprise – www.jointenterprise.co
• Miscarriages of Justice UK: Campaigning for miscarriages of justice in the prison system – www.mojuk.org.uk
• Bent Bars: A letter-writing project for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, transsexual, gender-variant, intersex, and queer prisoners in Britain – www.bentbarsproject.org
• Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement: US based anti-prison group with some very inspiring texts and analysis on prison abolition and wider social struggle – https://www.revolutionaryabolition.org
• Till All Are Free: Online directory of Anarchist Black Cross groups around the world – www.solidarity.international
• Bristol Anarchist Black Cross: local prisoner support crew – www.bristolabc.wordpress.com
• Fight Toxic Prisons: amazing crew building links between mass incarceration and environmental justice – www.fighttoxicprisons.wordpress.com
Books
- Are Prisons Obsolete? Angela Yvonne Davis
- Instead of Prisons: Handbook for Abolitionists – Comprehensive text on alternatives to prison and the decarceration movement
- The Abolitionist Toolkit -Toolkit for abolitionists developed by Critical Resistance
- Abolition Now! Ten years of strategy and struggle against the prison industrial complex by Critical Resistance
- Beyond Walls and Cages – Prisons, borders and global crisis. Book edited by Jenna M Lloyd, Matt Mitchelson and Andrew Burridge
- The Revolution Starts At Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities. Edited by L. L. Samarasinha and others
- Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Book by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- Captive Genders: Transembodiment and Prison Industrial Complex – Book by Nat Smith and Eric Stanley
- A Crime Called Freedom, Writings of Os Cangaceiros
- Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex. Book by Julia Subury
- Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles Of Incarcerated Women. Book by Victoria Law
- The New Abolitionists: (Neo) slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings. Edited by Joy James
- The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States. Book by Dan Berger
- Unruly Women. The Politics of Confinement & Resistance. Book by Karlene Faith
- Strangeways: a serious disturbance. Book by Eric Allison and Nicki Jameson
- Mass Incarceration, Political Prisoners, and Building a Movement for Community-Based Justice by David Gilbert
- HMP – A Survival Guide by Carl Cattermole
- Abolition Now! Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex.Book edited by Critical Resistance
Zines and Shorter Publications
- Towards Transformative Justice – Generation Five
- An Anarchist Re-Imagining: Communities of Resistance, Addressing Borders, Capitalism and Prisons
- What About the Rapists? – Zine with a collection of articles representing different approaches to the problem of harm and domination in our communities, including transformative justice-based accountability processes
- Creative Interventions – Toolkit to stop interpersonal violences
- Against Equality: Prisons will not Protect You. Book edited by Ryan Conrad
- The Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology by INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence
- Progressive Punishment: Job Loss, Jail Growth, and the Neoliberal Logic of Carceral Expansion by Judah Schept
- Close Supervision Centres – Torture Units in the UK #1 and #2 Publication produced by Bristol ABC about Close Supervision Centres
- Freedom First by Firehawk and Ben Turk
- The Writings of John Bowden
- The Struggle against the Maxi Prison in Brussels
- The Prison Works. Occasional texts on the roles of prison and prison labour – By Joe Black/Bra Bros. Published by Brighton ABC
Films
- Visions of Abolition
- Critical Queers
- 13th
- Injustice Documentary
- Dyke Jails
- Gentleman Bank Robber
- The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
Podcasts
- The Lockdown
- No More Prisons
- Rustbelt Abolition Radio
- Beyond Prisons
- It’s Going Down
- Kite Line
- A-Radio Berlin