I have just finished reading this book by Colton Simpson, which not only gave me insight into life inside the Crips, but more than that, also how fucked up, sadistic, racist and worthless the u.s. prison system is. Guards setting up fights between the inmates and betting on the outcome, killing certain prisoners based on how troublesome they are considered to be, and encouraging race wars within the prisons themselves. I guess it's just a smaller version on what amerikkkan society actually is. How could it be anything else? Books like this make appreciate the work that the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund do all the more.
I can't say enough about how [Revolution] opens your eyes
and gives you an alternative other than the
hopeless lies of this system...”
hopeless lies of this system...”
A new generation of politically-conscious prisoners is coming onto the national and international scene. Many prisoners, who society calls the "worst of the worst" or "irredeemable”, are going through a transformation, changing how they understand the world and their role in it. The most visible is the summer, 2013 California prisoners’ hunger strike, which began with 30,000 prisoners asserting their humanity by striking against the torture of long-term solitary confinement. It ended 60 days later, after widespread retaliation by prison authorities, with hundreds still not having eaten food. Other hunger strikes and political struggles against the dehumanization of American prisons have happened in other states in recent years.
Within this emerging new generation is a significant section of prisoners across the country who are looking for a deeper
understanding of why this world is a horror, how we can get out of it, and what it means to be human. They are engaging with the challenging vision and strategy for a radically new, and much better, society and world presented in the weekly Revolution newspaper (www.revcom.us), in “BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian”, (Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA) and in other literature sent to them by Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund. PRLF sends approximately 800 English and Spanish subscriptions to Revolution, and has sent over 1200 copies of BAsics…, and other literature to prisoners in hellholes in 43 states and the District of Columbia.
understanding of why this world is a horror, how we can get out of it, and what it means to be human. They are engaging with the challenging vision and strategy for a radically new, and much better, society and world presented in the weekly Revolution newspaper (www.revcom.us), in “BAsics, from the talks and writings of Bob Avakian”, (Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA) and in other literature sent to them by Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund. PRLF sends approximately 800 English and Spanish subscriptions to Revolution, and has sent over 1200 copies of BAsics…, and other literature to prisoners in hellholes in 43 states and the District of Columbia.
