“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”        

– Arundhati Roy

SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE on PRISON SENTENCING LAWS

October 19, 2015

C-SPAN3

C-SPAN.ORG

Margaret Fuller (1810-1850), journalist, feminist, philosopher, 

wrote numerous editorials on the 19th century USA prison conditions.

President Obama NAACP Full Speech

106th National Convention – July 14, 2015, Philadelphia

Prison Ecology Project

Books Through Bars

Books through Bars is an all-volunteer group that sends donated books to incarcerated individuals around the country. 

See more at booksthroughbarsnyc.org.

Victoria Law

Victoria Law is a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women and co-editor of Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities. She edits the zine "Tenacious: Art and Writings by Women in Prison."

http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/45103

For Offenders Who Can't Pay, It's a Pint of Blood or Jail Time