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[ prisons -- issues -- publications ] Prison-Related Publications PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE FROM PARC: Visit PARC's Newsletter and Fact Sheets pages. Criminal Injustice: Confronting the Prison Crisis We have published a book called Criminal Injustice: Confronting the Prison Crisis, which details many aspects of the current prison crisis. Topics include: Background and history of the prison system, and its role in society; Political Prisoners; Women's Imprisonment; The Death Penalty; Control Units and Supermax Prisons; and Cases of, and possibilities for, resistance. Click here for more information. Resource Directory The companion volume to Criminal Injustice, our Resource Directory for Educators and Activists on the Crisis in Prisons includes a Directory of Organizations working on prisons and social justice, and a bibliography of books, videos, and other resources on the prison crisis. Prison Support Directory Click here for the Prisoner Suport Directory PARC Updates: California's expanding prison-industrial complex Changing the Rules: Prison Officials and Legislators Mount an All-Out War Against Prisoners' Right to Legal Access NEWS Click here for Prison News. ARTICLES AVAILABLE ONLINE: The Social Functions of Prisons The Social Functions of the Prisons in the United States, by Bettina Aptheker. (From If They Come In The Morning, Angela Davis ed.) Prisons: the Cold War of the 90s, by political prisoner Jalil Muntaquin. Gardens of the Law: The Role of Prisons in Capitalist Society by Joel Olson. The Continuing Crime of Black Imprisonment by CEML Prison Labor The Labor of Doing Time, by Julie Browne. A look at prison labor and chain gangs in the US. The New Plantation, by political prisoner Bill Dunne. A look at prison labor in the US. The Drug War and Sentencing Aid More Effective than 3-Strikes at Reducing Crime, by Carla Rivera / LA Times Crime and the Drug War, detailing the links between criminalization of drugs and rising crime rates. The War on (certain) Drugs, by Noam Chomsky. US drug trafficking. Other Subjects How CoIntelPro Helped Destroy the Movements of the 1960s. FBI domestic repression and political imprisonment. From Alcatraz to Marion to Florence: Control Unit Prisons in the United States by CEML ONLINE JOURNALS Click here for online jounals.