Legal and Grassroots Approaches to Fighting the PIC
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, October 2013 On October 4, CR hosted our third Quarterly Donor Call of 2013. The call explored the opportunities and challenges involved in combining legal…
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Prisoner Hunger Strikes
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, June 2013 On June 21, CR hosted the second Quarterly Donor Call of 2013 which focused on prisoner hunger strikes. During the call donors learned…
Nothing to Lose But Our Chains: Organizing Under Surveillance
Ashanti Alston and Masai Ehehosi with Molly Porzig From The Abolitionist No. 18: Surveillance Editors Note: In exploring the role of surveillance as a cornerstone of the prison industrial complex…
Agreement to End Hostilities
The Agreement to End Hostilities is a historic document of prisoner organizing and resistance, written in 2012 by the “Short Corridor Collective,” a multi-racial group of prisoners in Short Corridor…
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 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…
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.…
Critical Resistance to the Prison Industrial Complex: Social Justice Journal
Volume 27, Number 3 of The Social Justice Journal was dedicated to the origins of Critical Resistance, including CR’s first conference in 1998. Social Justice Journal: CR to the PICDownload…