1. Abu-Jamal, Mumia
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   An African-American activist who was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of a Philadelphia police officer. His conviction was based on dubious evidence and dubious legal proceedings. (Born 1954).
2. American-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi on hunger strike for past five days
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Roxana Saberi, the young American-Iranian journalist who was sentenced to eight years in prison on a spying charge in Tehran on 18 April, has been on hunger strike for the past five days.
3. Barred from Prison
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1979
   
4. Berkman, Alexander
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Anarchist known for his political activism and writing. (1870-1936).
5. Blogger jailed for insulting leaders dies in Iran's Evin prison
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The Committee to Protect Journalists called today for an immediate investigation into the March 18 death of an Iranian blogger imprisoned in Tehran's notorious Evin prisonâ##.
6. Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE)
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
7. Commonwealth of Thieves
   The Improbable Birth of Australia
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2006
   A history of the first four years of the convict settlement in Australia, examining the interplay of soldiers, convicts, and Aborigines.
   
8. A Community Release Centre for Whitehorse
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1978
   
9. Converse
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1976
   The role of church people in the correctional system.
10. Crime and Criminals
    Address to the Prisoners in the Chicago Jail
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1902
    So long as big criminals can get the coal fields, so long as the big criminals have control of the city council and get the public streets for street cars and gas rights, this is bound to send thousands of poor people to jail. So long as men are allowed to monopolize all the earth, and compel others to live on such terms as these men see fit to make, then you are bound to get into jail.
11. A Duty of Honour
    Against Capital Punishment
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1918
    The existing penal system, which is permeated through and through with the brutal class spirit and barbarism of capitalism, must be extirpated root and branch.
12. Eye for an Eye
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    Four inmates talk about the American penal system over 50 years of rehabilitation and the corruption inherent of the prison system.
13. Going up the River
    Travels in a Prison Nation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    On the prisons in America, their unprofitable nature, and their ineffectiveness. Hallinan also explores the workings of mostly-white towns that host prisons of predominately black inmates.
14. In Conflict with the Law
    Women and the Canadian Justice System
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Critique of women and the Canadian justice system. Written from a feminist perspective, the collection is organized into three thematic sextions: Federal Imprisonment of Women -- Past, Present and Future; Images and Realities -- Profiles of Women Offenders; and Theoretical Considerations about Women in Conflict with the Law."
    
15. In Russian and French Prisons
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Kropotkin's criticism of the penal system, and an inside look into the horrors and realities of what life in prison entails.
16. Inmate's Rights
    A Handbook of prisoners: Rights and Obligations in Newfoundland and Labrador
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    
17. Kengir uprising
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A prisoner uprising that took place in the Soviet prison labor camp Kengir in May and June 1954.
18. Make the Don a Museum of Horrors
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
    A museum depicting what prison is really like might motivate us to demand radical changes to the way we deal with offenders.
19. Maximum, Minimum, Medium
    A Journey Through Canadian Prisons
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    Serving a nine-year sentence, Melnitzer documented his experience in three different prisons, along with his own introspections.
20. Men in Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    Victor Serge's novel based on his own experiences as a politcal prisoner.
    
21. Nelson Mandela
    The Struggle Is My Life
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    This is an updated account of Nelson Mandela's speeches and political writings from both his days as leader of the African Congress Youth League in 1944 to his release from prison in 1990. The excerpts from his trial are riveting and revealing of the governments mind-set on apertheid. Mandela emerges as a man with patience, thoughtfulness and character. The text is enhanced with an index and new photographs.
22. Nelson Small Legs Jr. Foundation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    
23. NGO gains access to Guantanamo documents but double standard still prevails
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2011
    Reporters Without Borders welcomes the release of Department of Defence documents on 2 March that shed light on the Bush administration’s policies on the Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
24. 1976 Prisoner of Conscience Week Booklet
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1976
    A list of 14 prisoners on conscience. Chosen for Prisoner of Conscience Week.
25. Obama and the Boy in the Metal Box
    The Incarceration of John Walker Lindh
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Clemency for John Walker Lindh would open up to public scrutiny an outrageous injustice that high officials in the Bush administration deliberately perpetrated on an American citizen after the 9/11 attacks. It would expose how they covered up their illegalities by betraying the legal professionalism of the Justice Department and by imprisoning their victim behind prison walls for half his life.
26. Oh! How--German is this Revolution!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1918
    The existing penal system, breathing the spirit of brutal class-spirit and capitalist barbarism must be torn up by the roots. A fundamental system of prison-reform must be inaugurated immediately.
    
27. Penal transportation
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    The deporting of convicted criminals to a penal colony. Examples include transportation by France to Devil's Island and by the UK to its colonies in the Americas, from the 1610s through the American Revolution in the 1770s, and then to Australia between 1788 and 1868.
28. Prison Journals of a Priest revolutionary
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
29. Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    The story of Timmerman's 30 months as a political prisoner under the Argentine dictatorship in the 1970s.
30. Prisoners' Rights Group
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    
31. Prisons in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Gosselin provides a political and historical view of the prison system and its inherent contradictions. He argues that the penal system is used by the State to maintain its authority. He remarks on corporations, the press and the parole board and the difference in their treatment and coverage of prisoners and prisons. He sees the penal system as a morally bankrupt bureaucracy which threatens future incarceration for many people that the economy cannot absorb.
32. Quaker Prison Committee
    A series of reflections by Ruth Morris, director of Canadian Friends Service Committee
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
    A look at two case histories vis the bail system and pre-trial treatment of those charged.
33. Rosa Luxemburg
    Selected Political Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
34. The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
35. St. Leonard's Society of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
36. The Society of Captives
    A Study of A Maximum Security Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    
37. Sofri, Adriano
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Italian radical intellectual, a journalist and a writer. (Born 1942).
38. The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
39. The Threat of the Tag
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Tracking anklets for convicts are not a good way to alleviate prison overcrowding.
40. Too Few To Count
    Canadian Women in Conflict with the Law
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    
41. Traditional Aboriginal Spirituality Within the Prison System
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1983
    
42. Traditional Aboriginal Spirituality Within the Prison System
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1984
    Raises the issue of freedom of religion being denied to Native prison inmates who are not of Christian origin.
43. Tunisian journalist in desert prison could die from untreated asthma attacks
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Tunisian journalist Fahem Boukadous has been in extremely poor health since police arrested him on 15 July to begin serving a four-year jail sentence for covering protests in the Gafsa mining region of Tunisia.
44. Unruly Women
    The Politics of Confinement and Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Investigates the ways in which women who transgress the social order are disciplined, punished, silenced and confined. Covers material from the witch hunts to contemporary discriminatory treatment of women by the state and its law enforcement agencies.
    
45. Uyghur journalist and website editor sentenced to fifteen years in jail
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Reporters Without Borders said it was outraged at the harshness of a 15-year prison sentence handed down to journalist Gheyret Niyaz by a court in Urumqi, in Xinjiang province, China.
46. We are NOT the 'Story', It's Not Just Our 21 Kidnapped Passengers
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    On June 30th 2009 Israeli Occupation Forces forcibly boarded the Free Gaza boat, SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, and kidnapped 21 human rights workers and journalists who were on their way to deliver much needed humanitarian and reconstruction supplies to Gaza.
47. Wobblies & Zapatistas
    Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
48. Writers in Prison
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    An analysis of the work of imprisoned writers.

Experts on Prisoners in the Sources Directory

1. CATIE
2. St. Leonard's Society of Canada
3. Wikileaks