Resource Library

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