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…
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…
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…
Issue 37 Inside-Outside Fishing Line Column: Speaking Truth to The People – Building a Mass Movement against the Prison Industrial Complex With Current and Former Political Prisoners
By Lawrence Jenkins & Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin with Garrett Felber This article is a column from CR’s The Abolitionist Newspaper, the Inside-Outside Fishing Line, for Issue 38 on labor struggles…
How People on the Outside Can Support the Political Work of People on the Inside
By Stephen Wilson, imprisoned in Pennsylvania. Here are 10 things they can do for us: Organize and struggle with us, but allow us to be the authorities on our own…
Sneak Peek into Issue #30 of The Abolitionist!
Check out and share this beautiful, concise, and politically sharp resource titled, “How People on the Outside Can Support the Political Work of People on the Inside,” written by imprisoned…
The Black Panther Party 10-Point Platform: Highlights Today
A Critical Resistance Donor Call, April 2017 Our first Donor Call of the year, “The Black Panther Party Ten Point Program: Highlights Today” featured contributors to the latest issue of The Abolitionist newspaper of the same theme. …