Liberation through Education

Many of you have asked for resources on systems of incarceration. There are so many, but I will go over a few. First, a list of websites, then links to specific texts. I encourage you to look at these!

SITES:

• History is a Weapon
• Bureau of Justice Statistics
• Critical Resistance
• Families Against Mandatory Minimums
• It's About Time: Black Panther Legacy
• MotherJones: Debt to Society
• National Coalition to Free the Angola 3
• Prison Activist Resource Center
• Prison Legal News
• Prison Moratorium Project
• PrisonSucks.com
• RI Family Life Center
• RI Right to Vote
• The Freedom Archives
• The Sentencing Project
• Center for Community Alternatives
• AssataShakur
• Sasha Abramsky
  

TEXTS:

• In 2001, Christian Parenti, author of the excellent Lockdown America: Police And Prisons in the Age of Crisis, delivered a talk at the Stop The ACA(American Correctional Association) conference. His talk is about the thirty year explosion in prisons in the United States. A rough transcript is included below the mp3. Check it.
• George Jackson -- Black Revolutionary
• Linda Martin Alcoff -- What should White People Do?
• Angela Y. Davis -- The Challenge of Prison Abolition
• Angela Y. Davis -- Reflections on the Prison-Industrial Complex
• Stephen Hartnett -- Prison, Labor, Slavery & Capitalism
• David M. Oshinsky -- Worse than Slavery: Parchman Farm/Prison
• Christian Parenti -- Crime as Social Control
  
• Gregory Shank -- Radical Criminology and Social Movements
• Paul Street -- Race, Prison, and Poverty
• Paul Street -- Empire Abroad, Prisons at Home
• Kim Gilmore -- Slavery and Prison: Understanding the Connections
• Kristian Williams -- the Demand for Order
• Anthony Platt -- Social Insecurity
• Bettina Aptheker -- the Social Function of Prisons
• Assata Shakur -- Women in Prison: How it is with Us