Resource Library

AFSC Online Publications

Visit AFSC's StarCafe for a comprehensive list of resources.

New Report on Racial Discrimination in Prisons
The AFSC STOPMAX campaign recently contributed to the US Human Rights Network Shadow Report for the UN Convention to End all forms of Racial Discrimination(CERD).

Buried Alive, Solitary Confinement in Arizona's Prisons and Jails(PDF, 361 KB),

Correlation of Prisoner's Issues and Conditions to International Covenants and Treaties: An AFSC Resource Guide, June 2003, by the AFSC Prison Watch Project. (PDF 82 KB)

The Prison inside the Prison: Control Units, Supermax Prisons, and Devices of Torture, 2003, by Rachael Kamel and Bonnie Kerness. (PDF 481 KB)

Survivor's Manual: Written by and for people living in control units, November 1997, AFSC. (PDF 193 KB)

Other Online Publications

Felony and Violent Recidivism Among Supermax Prison Inmates in
Washington State: A Pilot Study, 2004, Washington State University. (PDF 216KB)

Out of Sight: Supermaximum Security Confinement in the United States, 2000, Human Rights Watch.

Supermax Prisons: Overview and General Considerations, 1999, U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Corrections. (PDF 214 KB)

Human Rights Watch: Cold Storage, Supermaximum Security Confinement in Indiana(PDF)

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Print Publications

Solitary Confinement and International Human Rights: Why the U.S. Prison System Fails Global Standards by Elizabeth Vasiliades. American University International Law Review, 2005. Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Articles and Essays Analyzing the Prohibition of Torture Under International Law.

Home Sweet Hell: An Analysis of the Eighth Amendment’s ‘Cruel and Unusual Punishment’ Clause as Applied to Supermax Prisons, by Holly Boyer. Southwestern University Law Review, 2003.

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Video / Audio

Frontline, The New Asylums, DVD. View Online. See web site.

American Radio Works, Locked Down: Gangs in the Supermax, Audio. Listen. See web site.

Information Clearinghouse, America's Brutal Prisons. See web site and view online.

Up The Ridge a one-hour television documentary by Nick Szuberla and Amelia Kirby. Produced at Appalshop, in Whitesburg Kentucky, this is an exposé of Wallens Ridge, the region’s newest prison built to prop up the shrinking coal economy.

Web sites/Pages

Texas Prisoner Network Support http://www.brokenchains.us/AdSeg/links.html

The Prison Watch Program of AFSC (afscprisonwatch.org)

Control unit page of the Prison Activist Resource Center prisonactivist.org

http://www.supermaxed.com/

Critical Resistence - http://www.criticalresistance.org/

Society of Professional Journalists - (state x state media access rules)
http://www.spj.org/prisonaccess.asp

Human Rights Coalition http://www.hrcoalition.org

Pennsylvania Prison Society www.prisonsociety.org

FedUP! Hoping to link the arms of those inside and outside of prison fighting for a more just and caring world. Resources for PA and VA
http://www.thomasmertoncenter.org/fedup/resources.htm

Prison Legal News http://www.prisonlegalnews.org/

Prison Policy Initiativewww.prisonpolicy.org/reports.html

Justice Now http://www.justicenow.org/

California Prison Project http://www.prisons.org/

National Prison Project of the ACLU http://www.aclu.org/prison/

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