abolish prisons

From Abolition Media

In the coming weeks, a commission of judges from the Court of Appeals will review for the second time the possibility of granting parole to Monica Caballero Sepúlveda. This decision will be made automatically to any convicted prisoner who meets the requirements stipulated by law (specifically Decree Law 321). In the first parole review (which took place in November 2025), our comrade more than met each of the objective requirements, leaving only subjective arguments to maintain the denial of her release.

Via BBC News, by Ian Aikman & Jessica Rawnsley
France's Justice Minister said the government would not give in to "acts of intimidation" after a wave of attacks targeting prisons across the country.

From Freedom News UK

One of the more vexed questions in anarchist theory is “what do we do with all the criminals?” It’s had many different answers on offer over the years, from Kropotkin’s views on the roots of anti-social acts and possibilities for community rehabilitation, to modern ideas for non-”carceral” (locking people up) approaches to harm.

From It's Going Down

Invitation to international anti-prison gathering in Argentina July 2025.

From Free Sofia Johnson

More sadposting, essentially. Prison is stressful. You feel forgotten about, degraded to a lower grade of human. All that you do feel utterly contemptible to everyone free.

In a way, people do forget about you. You are out of sight and life moves on — jobs and joys mean you are low priority. Everything is either more immediately gratifying than what I’ve got going on or more immediately stress inducing and thereby demands focus, time. All I’ve got is time, as it goes.

From Act for Freedom Now!

Account from some anarchists who joined from out of town last saturday:

Shouting the whole way with passion and rage, 80 of us marched for over hour out of the town of Martorell, to the two prisons of Brians in the Catalan countryside. With chants, music and fireworks, we let the people held captive know they’re not forgotten, despite all the state’s intentions to isolate them. And through the walls and layers upon layers of fences, they called and whistled back.

Original title: CASE COSPITO, THE COMMITTEE AGAINST THE 41 BIS IS BORN. AND THE DAP DISTRUSTS THE DOCTOR FROM GIVING INTERVIEWS

Source: Republic

Among the intellectual supporters, lawyers and artists such as Zerocalcare, Elio Germano, Ascanio Celestini, Luigi Manconi. The launch document of the initiative: "Hard prison is like the death penalty". The anarchist on hunger strike for 96 days. The defense: "he should be transferred to a prison equipped with a clinical center"

From It's Going Down

...Against Backdrop of Increasing Police Violence and Growing Prisoner Resistance

On New Year’s Eve, anarchists, abolitionists, and angry community members across the so-called United States, Canada, and the world, all took part in yearly noise demonstrations outside of jails, prisons, detention centers, and juvenile hall facilities.

From Haters Cafe

Written for Haters Magazine by Simoun Magsalin. To be featured in the forthcoming second issue. Zine version will be available when we finish it.

from Anarchist Communists Meanjin by Black Freighter

CW: Article discusses distressing topics.

January 22 marks the seventh International Day of Solidarity with Transgender Prisoners. Initially called by Marius Mason, a transgender anarchist prisoner incarcerated for his environmental direct action with the Earth Liberation Front, J22 encourages us to acknowledge the experiences of trans and other sex and gender-minority prisoners. Against a system committed to erasing the existence of incarcerated trans people, we can voice our solidarity and demonstrate our commitment to the abolition of prisons. Prisons, as Angela Davis notes, “do not disappear problems, they disappear human beings.”