Surviving Solitary Guide
A guide for imprisoned people to survive solitary confinement. Created by Critical Resistance members and friends, inspired by Issue 40 of The Abolitionist Newspaper on control units (printed December 2023).…
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California Women’s Prisons— Sexual Abuse Response & Prevention Working Group
A groundbreaking report on sexual violence by staff in California prisons, informed by the lived experiences of over 700 incarcerated women and trans people of all genders whose incredible bravery…
Resisting Torture: Refusing to Surrender
An article from Issue 40 of The Abolitionist Newspaper by Molly Porzig with Marie Levin and “Comrade Pops” about Critical Resistance’s work in the Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity coalition supporting…
Issue 40 Sneak Peek on Control Units – “You Can’t Kill the Spirit of a Revolutionary: Susan Rosenberg on the Lexington Control Unit for Women”
Interview by Dylan Brown of The Abolitionist Editors’ Note: The following article is a transcript of a conversation between Dylan Brown of Critical Resistance’s The Abolitionist Editorial Collective and former…
News Sources on Palestinian Liberation, Gaza and Apartheid Israel
The all-out war apartheid-Israel has waged on the people of Gaza in October 2023 has exposed the unreliability and outright racism of Western media. The demonization of Palestinians, Muslims, and…
Cultural Awareness Groups: A Form of Prisoner-Led Resistance
For years, Washington prisoners have used Cultural Awareness Groups (CAGs) as spaces for collective growth, liberation, healing practices, and inside-out organizing with local partners. The below zine was created to…
Issue 39 Sneak Peek: An Inside-Outside Fishing Line Conversation between Indigenous Political Prisoners in Argentina
The following article is a column from CR’s cross-wall, bi-lingual newspaper The Abolitionist, Issue 39’s the Inside-Outside Fishing Line–this time featuring a conversation between Mapuche political prisoners on house arrest…
Toward Abolitionist Horizons: Celebrating 25 Years of Critical Resistance
On May 5, 2023, Critical Resistance hosted a benefit event in San Francisco, California to celebrate 25 years of Critical Resistance and the struggle to abolish the prison industrial complex.…
Sneak Peek into Issue 39 – Fulfilling the Promise of Reproductive Justice: Abolition & the Family Regulation System
The following article is an early release article from CR’s The Abolitionist Newspaper, Issue 39 on Reproductive Justice, printing in June 2023 issue. To support free subscriptions of the newspaper…
From Crisis to Care: Ending the Health Harm of Women’s Prisons
Human Impact Partners, California Coalition for Women Prisons, along with Transgender, Gender-Variant and Intersex (TGI) Justice Project and Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) released this report on the…