This piece was originally posted to RashidMoD.com on November 10, 2023. On October 30,2023, I was transferred to Red Onion State Prison (ROSP), a Virgina prison with an extensive history of racism and abuse. Red Onion’s notoriety goes back to when the prison first opened, with a 1999 report by
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Kersplebedeb: Call for Art & Essay Submissions for 2024 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoner Calendar
The Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners Calendar collective is releasing its 23rd calendar in 2024. With twelve pieces of beautiful art and twelve essays, these radical calendars have a history of hanging in thousands of homes, workplaces, prison cells, and community spaces around the globe—both educating and reminding us
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Harm Reduction Guided by the Goal of the Abolition of Prisons and Capitalism: An interview with former Direct Action member and ex-prisoner Ann Hansen
The now closed P4W (Prison for Women) in Kingston, Ontario. Ann Hansen was imprisoned in 1983 for her involvement in the urban guerilla group Direct Action. She is the author of Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerilla and Taking the Rap: Women Doing Time for Society’s Crimes. She wrote
Continue readingKersplebedeb: The Attica Liberation Faction Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Depression Platform, 1971 [mirrored from BlackAgendaReport.com]
Remembering the Attica prisoner demands as the 50th anniversary approaches. [This article was originally posted by Black Agenda Report on August 18, 2021. For more on the Attica Rebellion, check out the book A Time To Die: The Attica Prison Revolt. For audio with the words of participants and fellow
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Decades of torture, hundreds of men, weeks of starvation – and still we aren’t free! [SFBayView, Nube Brown]
Paul Redd (PR) [Reposted from SFBayView.com. Originally published July 16, 2021.] Interview with Paul Redd and Ruben Jitu Williams by Editor Nube Brown This is my interview with two incredible men who represent hundreds of others who have survived the torture of decades of solitary confinement and psychological abuse in
Continue readingKersplebedeb: Pennsylvania prisoners start hunger strike against isolation practices
Originally published at Perilous Chronicle. June 25, 2021 By Lena Mercer, Perilous Chronicle On June 23, 20-30 prisoners at SCI Phoenix, a 3,800 bed state prison facility near Philadelphia, began a hunger strike. The strikers are protesting against the use of an Intensive Management Unit (IMU), or segregation unit, inside
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Nov. 3, 2020
NOTE: If you send the updates to Kojo Bomani Sababu, his address has changed as USP Canaan has shifted to a privatized mail service: Kojo Bomani Sababu* #39384-066 USP Canaan Smart Communications Post Office Box 30 Pinellas Park, Florida 33781 *Address envelope to Grailing Brown. Here’s the latest compilation of
Continue readingKersplebedeb: NYC-ABC PP/POW updates Oct. 20, 2020
PDF: NYC Anarchist Black Cross Political Prisoner/Prisoner of War updates, Oct. 20, 2020. One part of NYC ABC‘s every-other-week Political Prisoner Letter-Writing event is presenting updates and announcements. These typically relate to or are written by PPs and/or POWs. Since February 2011, they’ve been printing and mailing hard copies of
Continue readingKersplebedeb: What happened to Prisoner Justice Day?
What happened to Prisoner Justice Day? is a podcast mini series about the history of prisons in canada focusing on differences in the prison system in the 1960s-1980s versus today. The podcast features interviews with former and current prisoners, as well as supporters on the outside; the miniseries is all
Continue readingKersplebedeb | Kersplebedeb: Termite Collective Statement on National Prison Strike
August 21, 2018 To who it may concern, We are a group made up of individuals from diverse backgrounds, including volunteers, former inmates, and currently incarcerated inmates. Many of our members are inmates serving life sentences, several of our group members have been incarcerated for more than a quarter century and
Continue readingTHE CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE: Public Education: School to Prison Pipeline (VIDEO)
To end the violence in Baltimore there must be radical reform of public education and the criminal justice system – a panel moderated by radio talk show host Marc Steiner The post Public Education: School to Prison Pipeline (VIDEO) appeared first on THE CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE.
Continue readingArt Threat: The Condemned exposes the dark lives of convicted murderers
On the outside, The Condemned is what you would expect of a documentary about a prison: bad food, unsympathetic guards, tearful family reunions, letters from Lonely Hearts, and a lot of tattoos. But Federal Penal Colony 56, buried deep in the wilderness of Russia, contains so much more. A prison
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: “Protective” Custody
The way that trans people are housed in detention and correctional settings has come to attention recently, after British comedian Avery Edison was detained by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) for having previously overstayed her visa — and then she was initially sent to a mens’ prison while the
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: “Protective” Custody
The way that trans people are housed in detention and correctional settings has come to attention recently, after British comedian Avery Edison was detained by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) for having previously overstayed her visa — and then she was initially sent to a mens’ prison while the
Continue readingDented Blue Mercedes: On the Detention of Trans People
“… in a way that is not inconsistent with one’s gender identity.” Remember that phrase. It’s going to simplify something that might otherwise seem like a complicated issue. So this British comedian walks into Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. Some of you have heard this one before… The treatment of trans
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Swiss Inmates Going to Pot
Swiss prisons have a marijuana problem and Swiss prison guards like it that way. A recent study published in the International Journal of Drug Policy estimates that 50 to 80 percent of inmates in Swiss prisons use marijuana. Prison staff told researchers they found marijuana to be a relatively safe drug
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Omar Khadr moved to Edmonton prison after months in solitary confinement
Former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr has been transferred to the maximum-security Edmonton Institution in Alberta after spending months in solitary confinement at Millhaven penitentiary in Ontario, where a fellow inmate once threatened his life. The post Omar Khadr moved to Edmonton prison after months in solitary confinement appeared first on
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Snapshot of Genocide
An excerpt from Loic Wacquant’s Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity (Duke University Press 2009), pages 59-73: The Gaols of the Subproletariat: An Experimental Verification It suffices, to discern the extrapenological functions served by the outsized extension of the US carceral apparatus even as crime plummeted for
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Mtl: Captive Genders Discussion and Letter-Writing
Friday, March 293:30pm1800 Létourneux Join the Prisoner Correspondence Project for a reading from Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex and conversation with two California-based queer anti-prison activists. What are some of the uses and limits of a queer framework in anti-prison organizing? What does it mean for queers
Continue readingSketchy Thoughts: Kevin Rashid Johnson: February 2013: They Waited, Wanted and Watched For Me To Die…
What follows is a message from Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, who is currently being held at a behavior modification unit in Oregon, where he suffered a severe health crisis earlier this year. It answers many of the questions we have had since we learned of his predicament. -kFebruary 2013: They Waited,
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