‘Untouchables’ step up attacks on prison guards (UK)

via mainstream media An explosion of violent attacks against prison officers has erupted following a European Court ban on extending detainees’ sentences for misbehaviour. Before the Euro-court ruling, prison governors had the summary power to add 21 days to the sentence of a young offender and 42 to that of an adult for fighting, assaults …

Prison suicides more than double as the prison society announces ‘super child prisons’ (UK)

A series of reports in liberal mainstream media rag The Guardian have further highlighted the fetid stench of the growing cesspit that is the UK prison system. These reports hold up a stark mirror which manage to reflect both the prison society that unashamedly alienates and indoctrinates its young people outside in ‘normal society’ whilst …

PDF: A Few Notes on Anarchist Revolutionary Solidarity and the Struggle Against Prison

PDF: A Few Notes on Anarchist Revolutionary Solidarity and the Struggle Against Prison– Anonymous (2012) I’m writing these lines concerning the subjects of Solidarity and prison. I hope this can clarify the anarchist perspective as concerns revolutionary solidarity and the difference between solidarity and support, which is anyway necessary. These opinions of mine are open …

No Prison for No one! / Kein Häfn für niemand! (Austria)

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’ …