Records
Afeni Shakur: Solidarity during Panther 21 Trail
Afeni Shakur speaks about the constant support the 21 Panthers received from people who showed up every day to the trails, including school children, and how this has affected the jury positively. In addition, she addresses the complex relation between political prisoners and guards and how some guards showed gestures of solidarity by, for instance, fasting...
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
Foundational 1988 movement history by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall (South End Press). Documents the FBI's COINTELPRO and post-COINTELPRO operations against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, drawing on Bureau records released under FOIA, court records, and movement testimony. Part I covers the FBI as political police, the COINTEL...
Aids in Prison: A forum for Education and Action
Flyer for educational event on Aids in the prison environment. Includes list of events.
Alabama Prisoner Struggle Zine (TFSR)
Zine on Alabama prison strike and inside organizers (FAM / Unheard Voices).
Alabama's Atticas — Inmates for Action Statement (Atmore-Holman)
Inmates for Action / Atmore-Holman Brothers Defense Committee statement critiquing the Alabama prison system and the state repression that followed the 1974 Atmore-Holman prison rebellions and the killing of guards at the Atmore (G.K. Fountain) facility. A companion document to the Pontiac Brothers and Attica Brothers organizing of the same period.
Alderson Attica Demands
This pamphlet includes a list of twenty-eight demands issued by prisoners at Attica State Prison in New York in May, 1971, and 42 demands issued by women prisoners at Alderson Federal Prison, which were presented during a four day sit-in in solidarity with Attica prisoners during the week of September 14, 1971. Many of these demands refer to basic rights suc...
Alejandrina Torres: A Profile of a Puerto Rican Prisoner of War
Biography and account of inhumane treatment at the hands of the US prison system.
Alex Stokes support pamphlet (NYC ABCF, February 2026)
Tri-fold support pamphlet for antifascist political prisoner Alex Stokes (Contompasis), for distribution and letter-writing campaigns.
Alex Stokes tri-fold pamphlet (NYC ABCF, September 2023)
NYC ABC tri-fold support pamphlet for antifascist political prisoner Alex Stokes (Contompasis).
Allegations of Ill-Treatment in Marion Prison, Illinois (Amnesty International, May 1987)
May 1987 Amnesty International report documenting allegations of guard mistreatment of prisoners at USP Marion (the federal Control Unit), with correspondence chain regarding requests for an official investigation.
Alternative Legal Systems -- China
This article provides analysis of how the prison system, judicial system, and law enforcement operate in socialist China, in order to better understand potential alternatives to the current criminal justice system in the US.
Alvaro Luna Hernandez (Xinachtli) poster
Printable poster featuring Alvaro Luna Hernandez (Xinachtli).
America bars Cuban Prison Experts
Reproduction of 6/25/1988 article on US State Department's denial of visas to a delegation of Cubans requesting visits in American prisons.
Amnesty International Report 1978 (excerpt)
Excerpt of Amnesty International's annual report covering July 1977 – June 1978 (POL 10/01/1978), including the United States section: the organization's work on the Charlotte Three (James Earl Grant, Charles Parker, T.J. Reddy), its adoption of the Wilmington Ten as Prisoners of Conscience and the campaign for their pardon, trial observation for Leonard Pel...
Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners — House Judiciary Hearings
Full transcript of 1921 hearings on amnesty for WWI-era Espionage Act prisoners; testimony from defense committees, Debs supporters, IWW counsel.
Amnesty to Prisoners Since the Armistice (Alternate Edition)
Companion edition of S. Doc. 224 — printed list of post-armistice federal political prisoners.
Amnesty to Prisoners Since the Armistice — S. Doc. 224
Wilson's Justice Department reply to the Senate listing every Espionage / Selective Service Act prisoner still confined after the armistice, with names, sentences, and prisons.
An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle
Sundiata Acoli's updated history of the New Afrikan prison struggle, tracing Black political prisoner organizing inside U.S. prisons.
An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle
Sundiata Acoli's primary essay on the history of the New Afrikan Prison Movement — the political and organizational tradition of Black political prisoners in U.S. state and federal custody developed from the late 1960s onward. Covers the 1960s-1970s prison rebellions (Attica, San Quentin, Folsom), the BLA-era prisoner cohort, the founding of the Republic of...
An Updated History of the New Afrikan Prison Struggle
Sundiata Acoli (BLA, MOVE-era political prisoner) updates his foundational history of New Afrikan prison resistance.
An Updated Public Report about the Continuing Lockdown and Torture of the Prisoners at U.S. Penitentiary, Marion
3/26/1984 update on conditions of the Marion Lockdown. Accounts of food tampering, abuse, neglect, isolation and cancel of rehabilitation programs included.
Anarchism and Ancient Egyptian (Kemetic) Knowledge
Imprisoned organizer Hybachi LeMar on Kemetic spirituality and anarchism.
Anarchism and the Black Revolution
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin's foundational text linking anarchism with Black liberation, written and revised across the late 1970s and 1980s while Ervin was a Black Panther Party-aligned political prisoner in U.S. federal custody following his hijacking conviction. Originally circulated as a movement pamphlet and republished in expanded book form (most recently by...
Anarchist Black Cross Network Newsletter — Summer 2003
Summer 2003 newsletter of the Anarchist Black Cross Network, scanned from the Freedom Archives' Anarchist Black Cross scan set. Inter-chapter news, prisoner updates, and ABC organizing notes.
Anarchist Black Cross: An Introduction
Overview of the Anarchist Black Cross prisoner-support network.