via mainstream media: A lack of prison officers and the growth of the prison population has led to an upsurge in violence and an increase in self-harm and suicide amongst detainees which is driving prison regimes towards instability. This article from the mainstream media, although it is nothing more than a political call to arms …
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Via 325: Call out for the Anti-Prison Days in Vienna- 7-9 Nov 2014 The Austrian word for jail is: Häfn, but no matter what name you give it, we are talking about the same thing here: Prison iron bars, cages, high walls, and barbed wire behind which those incarcerated are stashed away. for the ‘protection’ …
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In a ridiculously repressive move by the police in India an anarchist has been arrested for failing to show due respect to the national anthem. Salman M has been accused of sedition for allegedly “sitting and hooting” when the anthem was played at the theatre. For some anti-nationalist media that he posted on facebook he …
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Documentary from Greece about the prison society, its role in social control and the ongoing rebellion against it… The film focuses on the prison uprisings against the political repression and social war against the comrades in Greece as well as the hunger strikes against the Type-F prisons in Turkey which soon spread to engulf many …
via in the belly of the beast A prison officer was hospitalised after being attacked by three inmates. The male officer, in his early 30s, was jumped by three inmates at Lewes Prison on Wednesday morning. Sources at the prison said the officer was with a female colleague when three inmates were told they were …
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via 325: In response to the NATO summit in Newport and in solidarity with insurrectionist anarchist prisoners worldwide, a cell of the Federazione Anarchica Informale (FAI) has struck BAE Systems in Filton, Bristol: We mounted our attack against the BAE Systems arms factory in the Filton area of Bristol by setting a fire against the …
via actforfree: As of last Monday 25/8/14, the security service started to empty Domokos prison, in order for it to be transformed into a ‘C’ type hellhole, according to the fascist law 4274/2014. On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday they transferred about 100 prisoners to other prisons around the country! As soon as we got the …