Calling the Bluff on “Gender-Responsive” Prisons by Ben Goldstein
For many of us, it isn’t news that today in America, there are around 2 million people in prison, and about 6.5 million people under some sort of supervision of…
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Prison Struggle 1970-71
While researching our next issue on prisoner resistance and strikes, we found this amazing rundown of media-reported prison actions that happened between 1970 and 1971. Download the high-res version here.…
Improvising on Reality: The Roots of Prison Abolition by Liz Samuels
In this chapter of The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism by Dan Berger, Victoria Law, James Tracy, et al, former Critical Resistance member Liz Samuels examines the historic Attica Rebellion of 1971 and…
Art in Abolition: STIC Campaign & Image Analysis
CR Oakland member and Stop the Injunction Coalition organizer reflects on the ways in which CR has used art in our campaign to defeat gang injunctions in Oakland. Memory and…
Kinder, Gentler & Gender-Responsive Cages: Prison Expansion is Not Prison Reform by Rose Braz (2006)
Article written by Critical Resistance co-founder Rose Braz in 2006, published in October/November issue of Women, Girls & Criminal Justice. Kinder-Gentler-Gender-Responsive-CagesDownload…
The Abolitionist Newspaper Interviews Bonnie Kerness & Masai Ehehosi from ASFC on alternatives to the prison industrial complex
The following interview is from CR’s cross-wall newspaper, The Abolitionist, Issue 2, printed the summer of 2005. Learn more about the project and support it today with a paid subscription.…
Reflections on Critical Resistance: From Critical Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex, Social Justice Journal Vol. 27
Dylan Rodriguez and Nancy Stoller interview four members of Critical Resistance’s original conference organizing committee – Bo Brown, Terry Kupers, Andrea Smith, and Julia Sudbury – on the organizing and…