Two Missives from a PA Prison, from Comrade Elliot

ONE: What's so sad now a days these young men would rather fight someone over $5 then peacefully stand up for their rights and what they believe in. I must specify because these devils are crafty that everything I am doing and attempt to do in the future is PEACEFUL so I do not care …

Antoine Walker is on Hunger Strike

Comrades, Hello, my name is Antoine, better known as Indy. I’m a 28-year-old Black, Bisexual man, incarcerated in Pennsylvania. I am an LGBT activist and prison abolitionist. I’m serving an 8 to 20-year sentence and I’m 10 years into it. I have been in solitary confinement since September 26, 2017 on the allegation of assaulting …

A New Retaliatory Write-Up for Stevie, and Another Kangaroo Hearing

Two notes from Stevie on this plain retaliation... ONE: Charges: #33 Using abusive language to an employee and #35 Refusing to obey an order "On above date (10-28) and time (1150), Inmate Wilson was called to retrieve property being distributed to inmates who had purchased items. I/M Wilson had a pair of sneakers to sign …

Urgent: Stimulus Check Forms

***PDF is at bottom of this post*** Hello comrades! We have just learned that everyone locked up in a US prison is eligible for the $1200 stimulus check. Remember that check? The one we are all supposed to be living on months later? Anyway, it's a lot of money for our friends, family and comrades …

Carta de Safear

Translated by Mariana and María Teresa 8/10/20 Abolicionista encarcelado Stephen Wilson fue llevado al hoyo (RHU) hoy. ¿Su crimen? Expresar al gerente de la unidad del bloque [de la cárcel] una preocupación. El problema era bastante simple. La mayoría de los días estamos encerrades en nuestras celdas por 19 horas y media. Cuando llega el …

A Letter From Safear

Imprisoned Abolitionist Stephen Wilson was taken to the hole (RHU) today (8/10/2020). His crime? Voicing a concern to the block's unit manager. The problem was simple enough. We are locked in our cells for 19 1/2 hours most days. When it is time for our recreational periods the guards let us out late and lock …

Information & Technology Inside the Amerikan Dungeon

by Stephen Wilson & Michael Ness ‘The things prisoners wrote really jumped off the page.’ Illustration: Eva Bee https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/nov/10/writing-to-prisoners-unlocks-more-than-you-would-think Information overload is truly a free-world problem. While people in free society must wade through various streams of news to decipher just what is really happening, prisoners are often left high, dry and uninformed. What is …

Black Liberation and the Abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex: a conversation with Rachel Herzing

We’ve just packaged a prepared to mail some inside members copies of this great study resource, produced by True Leap Press. This zine was originally published in Propter Nos and Issue #29 of The Abolitionist: a publication of Critical Resistance   Black Liberation and the Abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex: a conversation with Rachel …

Abolitionist Thumbnail Definitions

We've just packaged a prepared to mail some inside members copies of this great study resource, produced by the South Chicago Anarchist Black Cross Zine Distro and True Leap Press. The graphics are originally from the Critical Resistance Abolitionist Organizer's Toolkit DOWNLOAD HERE: Abolitionist Thumbnail Definitions

In The Belly, Volume 2

We're very excited to share Volume 2 of In The Belly! We got a little behind schedule because we are still learning about how to run this project around the imposed rhythm of inside/outside communication and editing. Your patience and support and revolutionary abolitionist encouragement are deeply felt and deeply appreciated. Read it, print it, …