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- 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).
- Barred from Prison
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1979
- Berkman, Alexander
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Anarchist known for his political activism and writing. (1870-1936).
- A Community Release Centre for Whitehorse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1978
- Converse
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1976
The role of church people in the correctional system.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Inmate's Rights
A Handbook of prisoners: Rights and Obligations in Newfoundland and Labrador
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1984
- 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.
- 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.
- Men in Prison
Resource Type: Book
Victor Serge's novel based on his own experiences as a politcal prisoner.
- 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.
- Nelson Small Legs Jr. Foundation
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1978
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Prison Journals of a Priest revolutionary
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
- Prisoners' Rights Group
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Sofri, Adriano
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Italian radical intellectual, a journalist and a writer. (Born 1942).
- The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
- The Threat of the Tag
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Tracking anklets for convicts are not a good way to alleviate prison overcrowding.
- Too Few To Count
Canadian Women in Conflict with the Law
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- Traditional Aboriginal Spirituality Within the Prison System
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
Published: 1983
- 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.
- 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'.
- Writers in Prison
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
An analysis of the work of imprisoned writers.
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