Resources/Projects We Support

We hope that this page can help you learn more and get connected with anarchist, prisoner support and prison abolitionist groups.

Prisoner Support/General Resources

A list of ABC chapters can be found at the bottom of the page. Are you a member of an ABC chapter but your chapter isn’t listed? Let us know and we will add you to the list!

Black and Pink : Black & Pink is an open family of LGBTQ prisoners and ‘free world’ allies who support each other. Our work toward the abolition of the prison industrial complex is rooted in the experience of currently and formerly incarcerated people.

Critical Resistance : Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.

Jericho Movement: Jericho is a movement with the defined goal of gaining recognition of the fact that political prisoners and prisoners of war exist inside of the United States, despite the United States’ government’s continued denial … and winning amnesty and freedom for these political prisoners.

National Lawyers Guild: The National Lawyers Guild is the nation’s oldest and largest progressive bar association and was the first one in the US to be racially integrated. Their mission is to use law for the people, uniting lawyers, law students, legal workers, and jailhouse lawyers to function as an effective force in the service of the people by valuing human rights over property interests.

Prison Activist Resource Center: PARC corresponds with and mails a directory of resources to prisoners, their friends and family members. PARC is often the first point of contact for people to connect with prisoners’ rights organizations, community organizations, prison literature and arts projects, family and visiting resources, healthcare and legal resources, parole and pre-release resources, and the prison abolition movement.

Prisoner Correspondence Project: The Prisoner Correspondence Project is a solidarity project for gay, lesbian, transsexual, transgender, gender variant, two-spirit intersex, bisexual and queer prisoners in Canada and the United states, linking them with people a part of these same communities outside of prison.

Prison Justice League: The PJL works to improve the conditions in Texas prisons through litigation, advocacy, and by empowering our members. PJL addresses the needs of prisoners in Texas, challenges institutions of punishment and holds them accountable for their actions, and services choice for prisoners in communities most affected by the criminal justice system.

Prison Legal News: Prison Legal News (PLN), a project of the non-profit Human Rights Defense Center, is a 72-page monthly magazine that reports on criminal justice issues and prison and jail-related civil litigation, with an emphasis on prisoners’ rights.

Tilted Scales Collective : Tilted Scales Collective is a small collective of dedicated legal support organizers who have spent years supporting and fighting for political prisoners, prisoners of war, and politicized prisoners in the occupied lands of Turtle Island (i.e., the so-called united states).

Trans Pride Initiative: Trans Pride Initiative advocates for trans and gender variant per- sons in the Dallas area and for incarcerated trans and gender diverse persons throughout Texas. They provide general trans-related information and can answer questions about accessing hormones while doing time. They can also help advocate for improved conditions and safety in prison.

Sylvia Rivera Law Project: The Sylvia Rivera Law Project works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine gender identity and expression, regardless of income or race, and without facing harassment, discrimination or violence.

Unstoppable : Unstoppable is specifically by and for incarcerated folks who identify as women, gender variant, and/or trans. This anti-authoritarian publication seeks to blend radical political analyses with personal experiences and observations.

Fire Ant: Fire Ant is a publication focused on spreading the words of anarchist prisoners and generating material solidarity for our imprisoned friends. Begun as a collaboration between anarchist prisoners and anarchists in Maine, Fire Ant seeks to raise material aid for anarchist prisoners while fostering communication between anarchists on both sides of the walls.

ABO Comix: ABO is a collective of creators and activists who work to amplify the voices of LGBTQ prisoners through art. By working closely with prison abolitionist and queer advocacy organizations, we aim to keep queer prisoners connected to outside community and help them in the fight toward liberation. The profits we generate go back to incarcerated artists, especially those with little to no resources. Using the DIY ideology of “punk-zine” culture, ABO was formed with the philosophy of mutual support, community and friendship.

June 11: Each year, June 11th serves as a day for us to remember our longest imprisoned anarchist comrades through words, actions and ongoing material support.

Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement: The Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement is a political movement dedicated to freeing people from bondage and building resistance in the United States. We situate our political movement in the context of the abolitionist struggle against slavery and continue in the tradition, from Nat Turner to the Black Liberation Movement.

Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee: (IWOC), are a prisoner-led section of the Industrial Workers of the World. We struggle to end prison slavery along with allies and supporters on the outside. On September 9, 2016 we were part of a coalition of inside and outside groups that launched the largest prison strike in US history.

Books and Literature

Books to Prisoners : Books To Prisoners is a Seattle-based nonprofit organization whose mission is to foster a love of reading behind bars, encourage the pursuit of knowledge and self-empowerment, and break the cycle of recidivism. We believe that books are tools for learning and for opening minds to new ideas and possibilities, and engage incarcerated individuals with the benefits of reading by mailing tens of thousands of free books to inmates across the country each year.

Easy Bay Prisoner Support : East Bay Prisoner Support formed in 2007 as an explicitly anarchist and anti-prison group. We work on prisoner solidarity and resistance to the repressive police state. Our primary projects include distributing anarchist, anti-capitalist and anti-civilization literature to prisoners, facilitating letter writing, highlighting bay area anti-prison events and cases, and fundraising for prisoners who are a part of the struggle against all forms of domination.

Inside Books Project : Inside Books Project is an Austin-based community service volunteer organization that sends free books and educational materials to prisoners in Texas. Inside Books is the only books-to-prisoners program in Texas, where over 140,000 people are incarcerated. Inside Books Project works to promote reading, literacy, and education among incarcerated individuals and to educate the general public on issues of incarceration.

Prison Yoga Project : Provides a free 100-page yoga manual written especially for people in prison. Prisoners just need to write for a free copy. Focuses on the self-reflection and personal discipline The book contains guides for physical practice (asana), breathing (pranayama) and meditation (dyhana).

Tranzmission Prison Books: Tranzmission Prison Project sends books to GLBTQI prisoners across the United States.