Resources

Local

• Tranzmission Prison Project provides books and resources to GLBTQI prisoners across the United States.
• Blue Ridge Anarchist Black Cross is a community defense organization that supports political prisoners.
• Asheville Community Bail Fund is a grassroots project to bail people out of the Buncombe County Jail.
• The Final Straw is a weekly anarchist and anti-authoritarian radio show bringing you voices and ideas from struggle around the world. It often features news and interviews about issues concerning the prison system.

Other Resources

• Other Books to Prisoners Programs
• Nation Prisoner Resource List
• Jailhouse Lawyer's Handbook
• New York City Anarchist Black Cross is a collective focused on supporting US-held political prisoners and prisoners of war and opposing state repression against revolutionary social justice movements.
• The Jericho Movement is a movement with the defined goal of gaining recognition of the fact that political prisoners and prisoners of war exist inside of the United States, despite the United States’ government’s continued denial and winning amnesty and freedom for these political prisoners.
• In Contempt is monthly report on prison rebels, state repression, and news from an abolitionist perspective.

Educational Resources

Video

• We need to talk about an Injustice by Bryan Stevenson
• A brief history of the Modern Police interview with Kristian Williams
• 13th (2016) (Netflix)
• The House I Live In (2012) (Buy)
• What I Want My Words to do to You (2013) (PBS)
• Do Not Resist (2016) (https://streamingmoviesright.com/us/movie/do-not-resist)
• Up the Ridge (2006) is a 2006 documentary about prisoners sent from urban areas to be incarcerated in rural supermax prisons, such as Red Onion State Prison and Wallens Ridge State Prison.

Zines

• United We Stood - analysis and writings from the Vaughn 17
• 3 Positions Against Prison by August O'Clairre

Books

• Books Through Bars: Stories from the Prison Books Movement by Dave "Mac" Marquis and Moira Marquis (Firestorm)
• Tip of the Spear by Orisanmi Burton (Firestorm)
• We Do This Till We Free Us by Mariame Kaba (Firestorm)
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (Firestorm, Buy, PDF)
• Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis (Penguin, PDF)
• Angels with Dirty Faces by Walidah Imarisha (AK Press)
• Our Enemies in Blue by Kristian Williams (AK Press, PDF)
• The Struggle Within by Dan Berger (PM Press)
• Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang (MIT Press)
• The Prison Industrial Comples: Mapping Private Sector Players by Corrections Accountability Project (PDF)