Prisoner support guide A guide to providing support to prisoners in UK jails, from letter-writing and visits to sending reading materials and more.
Prison survival guide A guide to surviving prison or preparing yourself to go to prison, with tips on staying safe, prison etiquette, how to deal with guards and other…
A popular uprising that turned into a pogrom Following a brawl between Russian and Chechen mafia, a popular assembly adopted a fascist resolution for a pogrom. A later anti-fascist attack on fascist leaders resulted in several arrests.
Bush seeks to avoid human rights violation charges Bush is trying to pass legislation that would immunise government personnel for abuses against detainees at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan, and in Iraq, including those abuses it authorised.
House OKs controversial detainee treatment trial bill The Bush administration’s controversial military commissions and detainee treatment bill is one step…
1989: The Risley prisoners' uprising In 1989 prisoners at Risley Remand Centre celebrated 1 May in style by taking over a wing of the notoriously squalid, brutal prison and spending…
The US prisoners' movement, 1970-1978 - Howard Zinn Howard Zinn's history of the movement of US prisoners and supporters on the outside against poor conditions and ill-treatment.
1891: Miners against prison labour Howard Zinn's account of American miners' struggles against the use of slave prison labour.
1966: The Blake prison escape A short history of the miraculous prison break of Soviet double-agent George Blake from a British jail, organised by two libertarian activists.
Panopticism - Michel Foucault “Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?” This is chapter 3 of Foucault’s…
1971: The Attica prison uprising Against the background of the mass revolutionary, black power and prisoners' movements in the US, a five day revolt began on September 9, 1971 at…
