Fact Sheets Produced by PARC

This page includes downloadable fact sheets, suitable for printing, which can be used as educational tools, for doing outreach, and raising awareness on a variety of prison issues.

More fact sheets will be added here as they are produced. Note that if a fact sheet has "[PDF]" after it, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view it. Acrobat Reader may be downloaded for free from the Adobe site.

• 10 Things You Should Know About Prisons in the U.S. [PDF]
• 11 Things You Should Know About Women in Prison
• Suggested Readings and Videos [PDF]
• Education vs. Incarceration: A Stacked Deck [PDF]
• What's Your Priority?: The Government is Wasting Money on Incarceration [PDF]
• Basic Information on the Prison Industrial Complex, Prison Labor, and Modern Slavery [PDF]
• Racism and the Criminal Injustice System [PDF], a packet of 3 double-sided factsheets:
  • African Americans and the Criminal Injustice System
  • Latin@s and the Criminal Injustice System
  • Native Americans and the Criminal Injustice System
• Facts on the CCPOA, the California Correctional Peace Officers Association [PDF]
• The PARC-organized Student Prison Activist Network also has many useful hand-outs and fact sheets in its Student Organizing Packet.

This list last updated 10 July 2001.