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	Prison abolition movement information - Search.com
		The aim of the prison abolition movement is to eliminate prisons, jails, immigration detention centers, and prisoner of war camps by alternatives which they argue are more useful and more humane.
		Prison abolitionists present a broad critique of the criminal justice system in the West, which they feel is racist, classist, and ineffectual at “reforming” criminals, decreasing crime, or reconciling the victims of crime.
		Many people involved in the prison abolition movement are also involved in struggles against other forms of social control and "oppression," such as the institutionalization of the insane, and for this reason the struggle has been associated with anarchism and anti-authoritarians.
	www.search.com /reference/Prison_abolition_movement (509 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Abolish prisons, says Angela Davis
		She spent more than a year in prison before she was acquitted, in 1972, of charges of murder and kidnapping related to the failed escape of a group of African-American prisoners known as the Soledad Brothers in California.
		Within the prison reform movement, prison abolitionists, she said, are often viewed with mystery and skepticism and considered utopian.
		Drawing comparisons to other abolitionist movements throughout history, Davis said that her hope is that the abolition of prisons might attract the same vigorous international debate the death penalty has.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2003/03.13/09-davis.html (886 words)

	Prison abolition movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The aim of the prison abolition movement is to eliminate prisons, jails, immigration detention centers, and prisoner of war camps by alternatives which they argue are more useful and more humane.
		Prison abolitionists present a broad critique of the criminal justice system in the West, which they feel is racist, classist, and ineffectual at “reforming” criminals, decreasing crime, or reconciling the victims of crime.
		Prisons are not proven to make people less violent, in fact often they promote violence in individuals by surrounding them with other violent criminals and providing them no means of love, care and emotional support.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prison_abolition_movement (531 words)

	iCorrection.com -- Eastern State Penitentiary
		The aim of the prison abolition movement is to eliminate freedom-depriving institutions such as prisons, jails, immigration detention centers, and war camps by promoting more useful and humane alternatives.
		The prison was one of the largest public-works projects of the early republic, and was a tourist destination in the 19th century.
		Later however, as the prison began to admit increasingly more prisoners, the isolation system ceased to function and prisoners were allowed to see other inmates and leave their individual cells.
	www.icorrection.com /eastern.html (886 words)

	Welcome to iCorrection.com -- Prison Life
		Capital punishment, also referred to as the death penalty, is the judicially ordered execution of a prisoner as a punishment for a serious crime, often called a capital offence or a capital crime.
		Some observers regard prison conditions in the United States as problematic, with prisoner violence and rape thought to be widespread, and medical care for inmates deemed inadequate by many.
		In many countries the prisoner may have the luxury of selecting what the last meal will be (within reason), and the authorities do their best to provide a prisoner with the requested meal.
	www.icorrection.com /plife.html (599 words)

	Recording Carceral Landscapes
		Prison abolition is not as simple as remembering what things looked like before there were prisons.
		The prison institutions have to fall for us to imagine something different, but at the same time we have to be able to imagine something else so that the institutions can fall.
		The abolition movement was working from the future back, and the moratorium movement was pushing to stop building prisons and shrink the system into the future.
	www.paglen.com /carceral/interview_rachel_herzing.htm (3600 words)

	Definition of Prison abolition movement
		Prison abolition movement is a movement which goal is abolition of prison system either as it exists today or complete elimination of all freedom depriving institutions including prisons, jails, immigration detention centers, war camps, etc.
		Prisons also have a strong link with capitalism, especially in the case of private prisons and prison labor.
		Prisons were always there in a civilised society.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Prison_abolition_movement (578 words)

	The Prison Society - HISTORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Prisoners awaiting trial might barter their clothes for liquor or be forcibly stripped upon entering by other inmates seeking funds for the bar.
		Members of the Society were appalled by what they learned about the new Walnut Street prison and the next year presented to the state legislature an account of their investigations of conditions and recommended solitary confinement at hard labor as a remedy and reformative strategy.
		Each prisoner was to be provided with a cell from which they would rarely leave and each cell had to be large enough to be a workplace and have attached a small individual exercise yard.
	www.prisonsociety.org /about/history.shtml (1637 words)

	prison abolition movement - Anarchopedia
		Many people involved in the prison abolition movement are also involved in struggles against other forms of social control and oppression, such as the institutionalization of the insane, and for this reason the struggle has been associated with anarchism and anti-authoritarians.
		Prisons also have a strong link with capitalism, especially in the case of private prisons and prison labor.
		Anarchism is against prisons largely because they house non-violent offenders, incarcerate mainly poor or colored people, and do not generally rehabilitate criminals, in many cases making them worse.
	eng.anarchopedia.org /index.php/prison_abolition_movement (630 words)

	Anarchist Black Cross Network: Resistance is Global
		The abolition of prisons, the system of Laws, and the Capitalist State is the ultimate objective of every true Anarchist, yet there seems to be no clear agreement by the Anarchist movement to put active effort to that anti-authoritarian desire.
		Prisoners who went to prison for "social crimes" are coming to consciousness about the true nature of incarceration.
		prisoners jailed for specific political reasons and those who have become politically aware of the reasons for their oppression while in prison, as well as victims of frame-ups) to the largest possible audience.
	www.anarchistblackcross.org /abc/proposal.html (3117 words)

	Thinking Outside the Box Prison Abolition
		We profess to rely on prison for our safety; yet it is directly responsible for much of the damage that society that society suffers at the hands of offenders.
		Prison abolition is actually an extension of that movement and of all such efforts to restore people to full humanity; to break the shackles of both criminal and victim so they can each have lives of integrity and dignity, so they can each be part of a caring community.
		A prisoner ally works with the prisoner to change the culture; it is a mutual vocation, so no “thank you’s” are needed.
	www.metaphoria.org /ac4t0008.html (3127 words)

	NAARPR/Chicago Branch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Most people are quite surprised to hear that the prison abolition movement also has a long history-one that dates back to the historical appearance of the prison as the main form of punishment.
		Geographer Ruth Gilmore describes the expansion of prisons in California as "a geographical solution to socio-economic problems." Her analysis of the prison industrial complex in California describes these developments as a response to surpluses of capital, land, labor, and state capacity.
		The turn toward increased repression in a prison system, distinguished from the beginning of its history by its repressive regimes, caused some journalists, public intellectuals, and progressive agencies to oppose the growing reliance on prisons to solve social problems that are actually exacerbated by mass incarceration.
	www.naarpr.org /chicago/articles/prison_obsolete.php (4021 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Prisons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Prisons are conventionally institutions which form part of the criminal justice system of a country, such that imprisonment or incarceration is the penalty imposed by the state for the commission of a crime.
		Individuals may also be committed to prison by a court before a trial, verdict or sentence, generally because the court determines that there is a risk to society or a risk of absconding prior to a trial; such pre-trial imprisonment is known as remand.
		Prisons are often rated by the degree of security, ranging from minimum security (used mainly for nonviolent offenders such as those guilty of fraud) through to maximum security and super-maximum or supermax (often used for those who have committed crimes while imprisoned).
	www.blinkbits.com /blinks/prisons (2080 words)

	Instead of Prisons Preface
		We perceive the abolition of prisons as a long range goal, which, like justice, is an ever continuing struggle.
		This handbook is written for those who feel it is time to say "no" to prisons, for those open to the notion that the only way to reform the prison system is to dismantle it, for those who seek a strategy to get us from here to there.
		A successful movement to abolish prisons will grow thru the joining of those who have experienced the system from "inside" the walls with those on the "outside" who are willing to undertake the leap from palliative reform to abolition.
	www.prisonpolicy.org /scans/instead_of_prisons/preface.shtml (849 words)

	The Challenge of Prison Abolition: a conversation
		Prison needs to be abolished as the dominant mode of addressing social problems that are better solved by other institutions and other means.
		I think your open-ended conception of prison abolition also allows for a more comprehensive understanding of the prison-industrial complex as a set of institutional and political relationships that extend well beyond the walls of the prison proper.
		The most difficult question for advocates of prison abolition is how to establish a balance between reforms that are clearly necessary to safeguard the lives of prisoners and those strategies designed to promote the eventual abolition of prisons as the dominant mode of punishment.
	www.historyisaweapon.org /defcon1/davisinterview.html (2385 words)

	Abolition: The African-American Mosaic (Library of Congress Exhibition)
		Abolition >> Prominent Abolitionists -- Abolition and Slavery
		Although excellent studies of the abolition movement exist, further research in the Library's manuscripts could document the lesser known individuals who formed the movement's core.
		On January 1, 1794, delegates from the abolition societies of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland met in Philadelphia, a stronghold of the anti-slavery Quaker religion.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/african/afam005.html (1558 words)

	Prison - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The object of prisons originally, both among the Hebrews and the Romans, was merely the safe-keeping of a criminal, real or pretended, until his trial.
		A cell and galleries at London's Newgate Prison in 1896.
		Prisons for juveniles (people under 18) are know as young offenders institutes and hold minors who have been convicted, many countries have their own age of criminal responsibility in which children are deemed legally responsible for ther actions for a crime.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prisons (3834 words)

	David Walker's Grammar
		So I want to talk about the prison abolition movement in lights that might be provided by David Walker, but I want to begin with the final paragraph of his appeal.
		I worried about the prisoners when one student told me that the anticipated computer outages and systematic disruptions would be so extensive around the country on Jan. 1, 2000, that it would be nearly impossible for the state to respond to a prisoner's strike on that day.
		A state law mandates instruction for all prisoners no yet at eighth grade proficiency, but the law is honored more in the breech, as one would expect in a society still operating under vestiges of racist slavery traditions, from southern-style labor practices, to northern-style education.
	pages.prodigy.net /gmoses/moweb/dwalker.htm (1626 words)

	MOMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Perhaps one could believe in the rehabilitative function of prisons if the whole of society were not fundamentally structured to deny real educational opportunities, mental health services, employment, protection from domestic violence, the right to vote and the right to a driver's license to these incarcerated women upon their release.
		She writes that the prison "has become so much a part of our lives that it requires a great feat of the imagination to envision life beyond the prison." But at the same time people are afraid to confront the realities that prisons produce.
		Yet the prison system is neither natural nor inevitable and our society's inability to imagine life without it is a death sentence for the ideals of justice, equality and freedom.
	criticalmoment.org /juneaugust2004/articles/lee.html (1899 words)

	Correctional Ethics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Prisons as an institution symbolize the ultimate punishment, short of death, that any society can impose upon anyone who reneges on the social contract.
		It is important that prisons not become cesspools of human misery, and it is just as important they not become painless interludes in a life of crime.
		Prisons are places where pain is more or less controlled, and time is the instrument of torture.
	faculty.ncwc.edu /toconnor/415/415lect13.htm (2196 words)

	portland imc - 2004.03.01 - What Is Portland Books To Prisoners
		Since 1980, the number of women in prison has risen by 400%-- 80% of whom report to have had incomes of less than $2000 a year, 92% of whom report to have had incomes less than $10,000 a year, 64% of whom are women of color.
		32% of women prisoners are convicted for killing their husbands, ex-husband, or boyfriend and serve twice as long sentences than men who kill their wives, ex-wives, or girlfriends.
		While many prison activists point to the fact that the PIC is a racist institution just by looking at the statistics (while 1.6% of people in Oregon are African American, 10.24% of prisoners in Oregon are African American), we must go further.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/03/281804.shtml (1697 words)

	Fight for Lifers Philly
		Movements, especially radical and revolutionary movements, are always upsetting, always seen as ahead of their time, always disturbing.
		She has become one of the leading voices for the prison abolition movement, inspired by those brave and radical souls who peopled the original abolitionist movement.
		She critiques the growth of the prison industry, and recounts the history of the original abolition movement, and what lessons it holds for us, today.
	www.prisonradio.org /FightforLifersPhilly.htm (1236 words)

	Prisoner Support As Civil Rights Activism/Interview with the ABCN (U.S) : AZ IMC
		Prisoner Support may not be something you think about very often, but if you ended up being jailed due to a mistake or unfair sentencing due to politics, such as racism or classism, Prisoner Support organizations could literally be your only lifeline.
		I think there are a lot of men doing the prison support work, and that is a difficult obstacle to transcend in attracting and holding a more gender-balanced activist makeup in radical political groups; because due in part to the nature of male assertiveness and tendency to dominate group dynamics.
		Last year he was identified by the prison officials as one of the “leaders” of a boycott of the chow hall, commissary, and phone system by the prisoners.
	arizona.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=29957 (5413 words)

	The Center on Institutions and Governance - Conferences
		This movement was visible in the United States as well, in the form of neighborhood surveillance projects.
		Acutely aware of the stark contrast between themselves and prisoners, as well as the privileges they enjoy from the very system they oppose, women in CCWP work to bridge themselves to their "sisters inside" while remaining conscious of the power differentials that separate them.
		The central arguments discussed are that (1) the experience of incarceration affects the future civic lives of inmates, (2) different characteristics of the prison environment have different types and degrees of effect, and (3) the attitudes and behaviors of Correctional Officers shape these prison environments in critical ways.
	igov.berkeley.edu /workingpapers/papers0506.html (5719 words)

	American Gulag - News and resources about prisoners, prisons and prison abolition
		By 2011, the US prison and jail population will have added nearly 200,000 inmates -- a 13 percent overall increase and a 16 percent jump for women, according to a 50-state study by the Pew Charitable Trusts.
		The US prison system is a horrific national monument to racism, that dwarfs and mocks the Statue of Liberty, revealing the United States as by far the planet's foremost Land of the Un-Free, Home of the Locked-Down -- a rebuke to the authenticity of the Emancipation Proclamation.
		As the methamphetamine epidemic continues to ravage the country, some states are responding with a new innovation: "meth prisons" dedicated exclusively to inmates addicted to the drug.
	www.infoshop.org /prisons/public_html (1127 words)

	desire Los Angeles - Iron Jawed Angels, by Jessica Hoffmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tired of waiting for the slow change advocated by movement elders, they engaged in civil disobedience: pickets in front of the White House over polite meetings with politicians, weeks of incarceration as political prisoners over sucking it up and paying a fine for a crime they did not commit.
		They were radicals, shunned by the mainstream of the suffrage movement and subject to violent attacks by members of the public and the criminal-legal system.
		If you’re wondering why I’d throw in a line about prison abolition in an article on women’s rights movements, I should mention that U.S. women — in particular, African-American women — are being incarcerated at a rate faster than any other demographic group in the world.
	www.desirelosangeles.com /article.php?ArticleID=89 (832 words)

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