Resources
AFSC Online Publications
Visit www.starcafe.org/smx 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),
The Prison inside the Prison: Control Units, Supermax Prisons, and Devices of Torture, 2003, by Rachael Kamel and Bonnie Kerness. (PDF 481 KB) Also available in print from AFSC.
Survivor's Manual: Written by and for people living in control units, November 1997, AFSC. (PDF 193 KB) Also available in print from AFSC.
Other Online Publications
Out of Sight: Supermaximum Security Confinement in the United States, 2000, Human Rights Watch.
Human Rights Watch: Cold Storage, Supermaximum Security Confinement in Indiana(PDF)
Print Publications
American University International Law Review, 2005, Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Articles and Essays Analyzing the Prohibition of Torture Under International Law, SOLITARY CONFINEMENT AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS: WHY THE U.S. PRISON, SYSTEM FAILS GLOBAL STANDARDS, Elizabeth Vasiliades.
Southwestern University Law Review, 2003, HOME SWEET HELL: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EIGHTH AMENDMENT'S 'CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT' CLAUSE AS APPLIED TO SUPERMAX PRISONS, Holly Boyer.
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
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
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.%20hrcoalition.org/node/6
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/
http://www.massartillery.com/ - Art collective promoting revolutionary prisoner art to support grassroots struggles
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