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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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…
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…
The Banned Books in Your State Prisons: Search Engine & Database by The Marshall Project
In December 2022, The Marshall Project released a useful online tool to search what books are banned in each state’s prison system. From The Marshall Project: Banned Books Database Book…
The Knotted Line
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Intro to the Prison Industrial Complex 101: Workshop
Intro to PIC full curriculumDownload PIC DefinitionDownload PIC-Abolition-Concentric-Circles-front-back-handoutDownload PIC101 words- NEW 2015!Download…
Beyond Attica: Toward a World Without Prisons
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, September 2016 The conversation, commemorating the 45th anniversary of the Attica Rebellion, highlights the legacy of prisoner-led organizing for freedom as well as the political and social…
Critical Thinking on Abolitionist Strategy
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, June 2016 The core of CR’s work is to push—through grassroots mobilizations, popular education, campaigns and coalition efforts—a reinvigorated common sense in which the key…