LIST OF DEMANDS

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Angela Davis on the Prison Industrial Complex

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HUNGER STRIKE ENDS AS GREEK GOVERNMENT CAVES

After 18 days 7,000 prisoners in greece stop their hunger strike after the ministry of justice concedes to a series of their demands, promising to release half the country’s prison population by April 2009.
On Thursday the 20th of November more than 7,000 hunger strikers in greek prisons demanding a comprehensive 45-point program of prison reform [...]

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BUILDING SAFE COMMUNITIES: ABOLITION IN PRACTICE

Prison abolition is not som eutopian idea or activist pipedream.  It is not a call to suddenly fling open the prison doors without enacting alternatives.  Nor does it require that we wait for a revolution before we start changing things.  Abolitionists have practical ideas to reduce harm, build alternatives, reduce the need for prisons and [...]

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The Growing Crisis of Mass Imprisonment: UK Prison System Overview

PRISONS IN THE UK:
Adult & Young Offenders Prisons: There are currently 139 prisons in England and Wales (including 18 Young Offender Prisons, which could hold young people aged 18-20), 16 prisons in Scotland, and 3 in Northern Ireland.
Children’s Prisons: There are 4 “Secure Training Centres” and 14 “Secure Children’s Homes’ which imprison children aged 12-17.
Immigration [...]

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Using Tax Payers Money To Subsidise Your Business. The Reality Of Prison Work Camps

Having plundered the third world with impunity for so long, first-world capitalism has now turned its attention to the incarcerated working class in its own prisons, potentially a rich source of exploitable labour. Prisoners are paid around 30 pence per hour, but even these pitifully small wages are seen as fair game by capitalism.
The [...]

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10 WAYS TO ABOLISH PRISONS

1. Prisons perpetuate and enable violence.
Prisons are violent institutions.  People in prison experience brutal human rights abuses, including sexual assualt, rape, harassment and medical neglect.  Aside from these violations, the act of putting people in cages is a form of violence itself.  Such violence leads to extremely high rates of self-harm and suicide, both inside the [...]

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