A prisons crisis, or an opportunity?

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.

Update from Sofia - Isolation

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.

XXVI ANTI-PRISON MARCH, CATALUNYA

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.

Cospito Case, The Committe Against the 41 BIS is born

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"

Noise Demos Ring In New Year...

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.

J22: International Day of Solidarity with Transgender Prisoners

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.”

Fifth Estate by request on Immediatism podcast

Here are five episodes of articles from Fifth Estate, by listener request. Immediatism intends to feature still-relevant articles from back-issues of both AJODA and Fifth Estate as regular programming from now on, right along with the books from Little Black Cart and other publishers/distros, and -- of course!-- listener requests.

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