- Addiction and Control
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Prisons are very profitable. There are private prisons nowadays. The people that own them have, as their mission, first and foremost, the making of money. They need as many people as possible in prison to maximize their profits. They also need to spend as little as possible on the inmates and staff. Thus, America has over 2.3 million people incarcerated; more than any other country.
- Assessing the hidden costs to families when a parent is in prison
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The federal government's omnibus crime bill, currently being debated by the Senate, has launched a widespread conversation in Canada about the justice and penal systems. While the commentary and analysis has covered a number of different perspectiv
- Barred from Prison
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
An account of what occured inside the B.C. Penitentiary during a prison uprising in September 1976.
- Crime and Punishment in America
Why the Solutions to America's Most Stubborn Social Crisis Have Not Worked... and What Will
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Currie explores why being 'tough on crime' will only serve to exacerbate the problem.
- How Private Prisons Profit From the Criminalization of Immigrants
Lobbying for Lock-Up
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
How a nation uses its power to deny a person’s freedom has always been a critical measure of authoritarian rule. Massive incarceration based on race, ethnic origin or nationality, political beliefs, class, sexual orientation, age or other inherent characteristics is a form of tyranny. Yet few people realize that this is happening on an enormous scale in the United States.
- I Am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now
The Denial of My Parole
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Given the complexion of the three recent federal parolees, it might seem that my greatest crime was being Indian. But the truth is that my gravest offense is my innocence.
- Incarcerated Inside Israel
Palestinians Tortured and Isolated
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Detention without trial, the presumption of guilt, denial of family visits, solitary confinement, torture, violent interrogation, and denial of access to appropriate health care, such is the Israeli judicial system and prison confinement experienced by Palestinian men, women and indeed children.
- An Interview With Noam Chomsky on Obama's Human Rights Record
Nothing Can Justify Torture
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
America's human rights record under the administration of President Obama and the military intervention policies that have seen increased use during the Arab Spring.
- Make the Don a Museum of Horrors
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
A museum depicting what prison is really like might motivate us to demand radical changes to the way we deal with offenders.
- The Man Died
The Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Mass Incarceration and Black Oppression in America
The New Jim Crow and Liberal Reformism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The singular focus on mass incarceration as the embodiment of racial oppression has a purpose: it poses the fight for black freedom as a matter of "dismantling" that system, much as the civil rights movement dismantled Jim Crow. But mass black incarceration is both a symptom and a means of enforcing the special oppression of black people that is fundamental to American capitalism
- 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.
- Memoirs from the Women's Prison
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Nawal El Saadawi was imprisoned in 1981 by Anwar Sadat for alleged "crimes against the State." She offers both firsthand witness to women's resistance to state violence and insights into the formation of women's community. Saadawi describes how political prisoners, both secular intellectuals and Islamiists, forged alliances to demand better conditions.
- Men in Prison
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1931
Victor Serge's novel based on his own experiences as a politcal prisoner.
- A New Way of Life and the New Underground Railroad
Making a Break for Freedom During the Era of Mass Incarceration
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
This radio documentary is the third segment in Truthout's serialization of Chris Moore-Backman's Bringing Down the New Jim Crow based on Michelle Alexander's book of the same name. The series explores and gives voice to the continuing struggle for racial justice in the United States during the era of mass incarceration.
- Obama and the Boy in the Metal Box
The Incarceration of John Walker Lindh
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Obama's Liberty Problem
Why Indefinite Detention By Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order will threaten the liberty of every single US citizen who is not in Guantanamo because it will damage the due process guarantees which have built up over the years to protect each one of us.
- One Thousand Years of Solitude
Life in the SHU
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Indefinite solitary confinement: a large-scale experiment in sensory deprivation and social isolation.
- Prisoners' Rights Group
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- 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.
- The Shocking Ways the Corporate Prison Industry Games the System
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The United States, with just 5 percent of the world’s population, currently holds 25 percent of the world's prisoners, and for the last 30 years America’s business entrepreneurs have found a lucrative way to cash in on the incarceration surplus: private for-profit prisons.
- Solitary Confinement FAQ
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Solitary confinement is the practice of isolating inmates in closed cells for 22-24 hours a day, virtually free of human contact, for periods of time ranging from days to decades.
- Statement of Claire Culhane, Provincial Court, New Westminster, B.C.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
This is a statement by Claire Culhane in provincial court where she pleaded not guilty to a charge of trespassing on penitentiary land.
- Submission to the Sub-Committee on the Penitentiary Systems In Canada Hearings
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
A list of recommendations on how to fix certain issues in the prison system.
- There's still one injustice in Cuba to which Americans are wilfully blind
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
While criticizing Cuba for human rights violations, American politicians ignore the massive abuses taking place in their own prison at Guantanamo Bay.
- Tunisian journalist in desert prison could die from untreated asthma attacks
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
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.
- The Unbelievable Inhumanity of Solitary Confinement And Punishment for as Little as Reading a Book
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The majority of those in solitary confinement were given the punishment for nonviolent, low-level offenses such as having unauthorized books or disobeying an order or growing their mustaches too long.
- 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.
- Uyghur journalist and website editor sentenced to fifteen years in jail
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Why is Leonard Peltier Still in Prison?
Justice is 33 Years Overdue for America's Most Famous Political Prisoner
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Leonard Pletier is a political prisoner who has spent more than 33 years in U.S. prisons for a crime he didn't commit.
- Wikileaks, the US, Sweden and Devil's Island
The Anti-Empire Report
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
- Writers in Prison
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
An analysis of the work of imprisoned writers.
- Yemenis Have Moms Too
Michelle Obama, Open Your Heart
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Abdurahman al-Shubati disappeared more than a decade ago, just 18-years-old and teaching abroad, separated from his family for the first time in life. Join us in calling on Michelle Obama to open her heart to the cries of Abdurahman’s mother and ask Barack to send those cleared home and to expedite the closing of Guantanamo.
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