by Stephen Wilson & Michael Ness โThe things prisoners wrote really jumped off the page.โ 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 … Continue reading Information & Technology Inside the Amerikan Dungeon
Black Liberation and the Abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex: a conversation with Rachel Herzing
Weโve 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 … Continue reading Black Liberation and the Abolition of the Prison Industrial Complex: a conversation with Rachel Herzing
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, … Continue reading In The Belly, Volume 2
The Fight Against Criminalization and Repression under the Guise of COVID-19
Due to COVID19, the prison has us coming out for phones, showers, kiosks, meals and recreation in cohorts of 21 or 22 cells (roughly 38 prisoners per cohort). Initially, we were in cohorts of 5 cells with 45 minutes per cohort. Now we are in phase two. The problem is that while the cohort … Continue reading The Fight Against Criminalization and Repression under the Guise of COVID-19
Connecting the Dots
"I told the guys how the students were successful in their demands and how that win positively impacts us. They thought what the students did was great and were surprised that young college folk in New York even cared. I told them how there is a whole movement out there that is fighting against the PIC and that all of us need to be involved"
In The Belly Newsletter: June 11, 2020
Amid the global uprising against anti-Black state violence, we put together a short newsletter to send to our comrades inside who live on the front lines of this struggle. It can be printed on 3 sheets of paper, so it can be mailed with one US stamp. We hope it's useful. Below the file is … Continue reading In The Belly Newsletter: June 11, 2020
Abolition in Action
Two months ago, a friend and fellow prisoner, prepared to max out her sentence. She is a Black trans woman who had to do her time in a men's prison: over two decades of time. The world has changed tremendously since she came to prison. I worried about her transitioning to the "free" world. She … Continue reading Abolition in Action
In The Belly, Volume 1
News from outside supporters Friends and Comrades! We have finished the first issue of a project Stevie and his supporters have been working on for a while, and thinking about for longer. In The Belly is a new abolitionist journal for incarcerated people and their communities. Our editorial collective is anchored by imprisoned intellectuals and … Continue reading In The Belly, Volume 1
The Importance of Staying Connected
Across this country, there has been a tremendous outpouring of solidarity and love for imprisoned persons. We are thankful. As an organizer, I often talk about the need for connections across the walls. Our success is relative to the strength of relationships. In this time of crisis, the deepening and forging of relationships between imprisoned … Continue reading The Importance of Staying Connected