No New Jails Los Angeles: Jail Fight Info Packet
Information packet from LA No New Jails and Justice LA’s multi-year fight to stop jail expansion in Los Angeles County (2018). LA-Jail-Fight-Packet_final2018Download…
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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…
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.…
Prison vs. Princeton
This infographic lays out (in economic terms) some of the basics of why we need to prioritize education and jobs over prisons. Created by: Public Administration…
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…
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…