Records
Political Prisoners Write (Critical Resistance)
Compilation of writings by U.S. political prisoners published by Critical Resistance. From the Freedom Archives' Literary Prisoners scan set.
The Abolitionist Issue 35: Defunding Policing
Critical Resistance's newspaper on PIC abolition organizing post-2020 uprisings, focused on defunding strategies and movement-building.
The Abolitionist Issue 36: Pathways Toward Freedom
Critical Resistance newspaper exploring paths to abolition through freedom struggles, prisoner support, and survivor-centered approaches.
The Abolitionist Issue 37: Housing Justice & PIC Abolition
The connections between housing justice organizing and prison-industrial-complex abolition.
The Abolitionist Issue 39: Reproductive Justice
Reproductive justice as a framework for abolition; coverage of incarcerated pregnancy, post-Dobbs criminalization, and reproductive autonomy.
The Abolitionist Issue 40: Control Units
Long-term solitary confinement and control units, including coverage of political prisoners held in indefinite isolation.
The Abolitionist Issue 41: Ecological Justice
Ecological dimensions of incarceration: environmental racism, prison-siting in toxic zones, and climate movement — abolition links.
The Abolitionist Issue 42: Anti-War Organizing
Anti-war organizing through an abolitionist lens; coverage of Palestine solidarity prosecutions and the criminalization of protest.
The Abolitionist Issue 43: Seeds Through Concrete — Censorship & Repression
Censorship and repression of inside organizing; prison mail bans, book bans, and the criminalization of incarcerated writers.
Walkin' Steel (Vol. 1 No. 1, Spring 1991) — CEML
Issue of *Walkin' Steel*, the newsletter of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML). CEML was the principal U.S. campaign of the late 1980s and 1990s against the federal control-unit prison at Marion, Illinois — the post-Alcatraz federal supermax that held political prisoners including Sekou Odinga, Oscar López Rivera, Sundiata Acoli, Bashir Hameed,...
Walkin' Steel (Vol. 1 No. 2, Fall 1991) — CEML
Issue of *Walkin' Steel*, the newsletter of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML). CEML was the principal U.S. campaign of the late 1980s and 1990s against the federal control-unit prison at Marion, Illinois — the post-Alcatraz federal supermax that held political prisoners including Sekou Odinga, Oscar López Rivera, Sundiata Acoli, Bashir Hameed,...
Walkin' Steel (Vol. 1 No. 3, Spring 1992) — CEML
Issue of *Walkin' Steel*, the newsletter of the Committee to End the Marion Lockdown (CEML). CEML was the principal U.S. campaign of the late 1980s and 1990s against the federal control-unit prison at Marion, Illinois — the post-Alcatraz federal supermax that held political prisoners including Sekou Odinga, Oscar López Rivera, Sundiata Acoli, Bashir Hameed,...