Tag Archives: Prisons
Anti-fascist prisoners update
Prison moves and sentencing updates Further information on the six anti-fascist prisoners convicted earlier this year for conspiracy to commit violent disorder as part of an anti-fascist protest against a Blood and Honour neo-Nazi gig in Welling, south London. All denied the charges. Other anti-fascist comrades are still awaiting trial on the same charges.
Prison News
With the events in Libya and Japan and the protest over the Cuts at home continuing to hog the headlines, events in prisons across the world have largely escaped the media’s attentions. Here is a rundown of a few key events in the past fortnight: 15th March Iraqi state media claimed that 14 prisoners died [...]
Georgia Prisoners, Standing Up By Sitting Down!
USA prison system in a state of collapse as inmates get organised As we went to press with the previous issue, news was breaking of a historic strike by U.S. prisoners in at least ten Georgia prisons, including Baldwin, Hancock, Hays, Macon, Smith and Telfair State Prisons. The strike, which was initially meant to be [...]
Prisoner Support: Latin America
NOTES ON WRITING: Always put a return name and address on your envelope and your letter/card. For UK prisoners always include their name & prison number on envelope and each sheet or paper/item in it. Enclose an SAE if you’d like a reply, as prisoners have limited resources & access to stamps. Your letter will [...]
Prisoner Support: North America
NOTES ON WRITING: Always put a return name and address on your envelope and your letter/card. For UK prisoners always include their name & prison number on envelope and each sheet or paper/item in it. Enclose an SAE if you’d like a reply, as prisoners have limited resources & access to stamps. Your letter will [...]
Prisoner Support: Europe
NOTES ON WRITING: Always put a return name and address on your envelope and your letter/card. For UK prisoners always include their name & prison number on envelope and each sheet or paper/item in it. Enclose an SAE if you’d like a reply, as prisoners have limited resources & access to stamps. Your letter will [...]
Prisoner Support: British Isles
NOTES ON WRITING: Always put a return name and address on your envelope and your letter/card. For UK prisoners always include their name & prison number on envelope and each sheet or paper/item in it. Enclose an SAE if you’d like a reply, as prisoners have limited resources & access to stamps. Your letter will [...]
Prisoner Support List – February 2011
Bristol Anarchist Black Cross’ monthly list of UK & international prisoners welcoming support – February 2011 Prisoners in British Isles Prisoners in Europe Prisoners in North America Prisoners in Latin America ABOUT THIS LIST: This list is compiled from various sources, and every prisoner on it is believed to welcome political support. We try very [...]
What is the role of the ABC?
The Anarchist Black Cross has been around for over a century now and, like many other organisations, it role has changed over time. It started as the Anarchist or Political Red Cross sometime between 1900-05 to provide aid to comrades in Tsarist Russia and grew from there, changing its name to avoid confusion with the [...]
Strangeways prison riot, April 1st 1990
Twenty years ago the very day after the Poll Tax riot erupted in Trafalgar Square prisoners in Manchester’s oldest jail took control of the chapel for the start of what was to become the biggest riot and longest rooftop protest in British penal history and triggered a wave of revolt in over twenty other prisons [...]
