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Onslow County Book Policy Clarified

Sheriff says books ARE still allowed at the jail as long as they come from "legitimate" distributors or publishers, and that there was never a plan to ban books at the facility.

Prison Reading Group Planning Meeting

Prison Reading Group Planning Meeting

Asheville Prison Books wants to facilitate a correspondence reading group with people who are in prison. The general plan is to select and source a book, figure out who will participate in this group, send them copies of the book, solicit their feedback on the reading, and then publish their

Beer Benefit

Catawba Brewing is releasing a new habenero mole porter this Thursday and $1 from each glass will be going to Asheville Prison Books! We'll have a table at Catawba's South Slope Tasting Room & Brewery at 32 Banks Avenue on Thursday evening (December 6th) if you want to stop by and

Asheville Prison Books Endorses #August21 Nationwide Prison Strike: 8/21-9/9

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Asheville Prison Books Endorses #August21 Nationwide Prison Strike: 8/21-9/9

Asheville Prison Books endorses the national prison strike called for by prisoners which begins August 21st and extends to September 9th. The insane incarceration rate in the United Sates should be common knowledge by now, but you may not have known this horrifying piece of information: North Carolina, which has

South Carolina "riot" and call for National Prisoners Strike

South Carolina "riot" and call for National Prisoners Strike

Corey Scott, Eddie Casey Gaskins, Raymond Angelo Scott, Damonte Rivera, Michael Milledge, Cornelius McClary and Joshua Jenkins were killed and 22 prisoners wounded in a rebellion at the Lee Correctional Institution late Sunday and early Monday, April 15-16, 2018, in Bishopville, S.C. Check out this piece about the incident

Keep PUSHing: Building on the #OperationPUSH demands

Keep PUSHing: Building on the #OperationPUSH demands

Mere days before FDC's repression effort began scattering active prisoners into new facilities, and into solitary confinement for the weeks surrounding January 15, an Operation PUSH prisoner's anonymous voice reached the world and called on outside supporters to 'shine a light from the outside in on the system.' In

Brews for Books

Brews for Books

New Beer Thursday Fundraiser at Catawba! Join us at Catawba's South Slope Tasting Room & Brewery on Thursday, Feburary 15th for their first New Beer Thursday fundraiser of 2018!! Starting with the release on the 15th and running through March, $1 from every glass of their pomegranate sour sold will be

SC lawmaker calls for firing squads to carry out the death penalty

SC lawmaker calls for firing squads to carry out the death penalty

Fox Carolina: South Carolina Rep. Josh Putnam (R, Piedmont) said he plans to reintroduce a bill to add firing squads to the execution methods in South Carolina. Putnam first introduced the bill in 2015 but the legislation didn’t pass. He said the new bill would be almost identical to

Rashid Details FDOC Torture Practices

Rashid Details FDOC Torture Practices

Fight Toxic Prisons: Time on Ice: Florida Officials Torture Prisoners With Freezing Strip Cells (2018) By Kevin Rashid Johnson When I first arrived in the Florida prison system on June 22, 2017, and was thrown in solitary confinement in the latest of numerous retaliatory interstate transfers for publicizing and resisting

Packaging Party, Thursday January 25

Packaging Party

Packaging Party, Thursday January 25

Join the Tranzmission Prison Project and Asheville Prison Books for a book packaging extravaganza at 6-9pm at Firestorm Books & Coffee (610 Haywood Road) on Thursday, January 25. We will prepare packages of books and zines for mailing to prisons across the United States. Books have already been selected for each

The Heat is On: Update on Week 1 of Operation Push!

The Heat is On: Update on Week 1 of Operation Push!

Blue Ridge ABC: One week ago prison rebels across Florida launched Operation PUSH. Their demands were simple: end prison slavery and price gouging, restore access to parole, and put an end to the brutal conditions they are subjected to daily. Information has been slow to trickle out due to intense

Operation Push

Blue Ridge ABC: On January 15, people imprisoned across Florida will begin a “lay down” to cripple the state’s system of prison slave labor and to challenge the brutal conditions they experience daily. Thousands across the state will not go to work, go to chow, make purchases from the

Log Cabin Pioneers

Log Cabin Pioneers

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