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A few more words about the solidarity fund for imprisoned and persecuted fighters

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We are witnessing a process of intense social transformation, a savage restructuring of capitalism. The working rights achievements, the fake welfare and the consumerism privileges that extracted the social consent during the post-dictatorship era vanish rapidly, leading inevitably to states of social polarization.
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Massive Administration of Substances in Greek prisons (Savvas Xiros) 2009

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Introduction

In my new book, extracts of which follow, an outline of the drug command of all prisoners in Greek prisons by cognitive degrading is attempted. My experience I have gained from psychotropic substance administration has proven useful for the writing of this book – “with rape and rape of will” – throughout my 65 day accommodation in the intensive care unit, where modern and not only questioning methods were applied. The experience of other drug substances I was given from the 13 surgeons I’ve been submitted to after the bomb’s explosion in my own hands in 2002, since today also helped my writing.
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‘Neo-Liberalism And Prisons’ by John Bowden (UK) 2013

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via a comrade of Brighton ABC:

Neo-liberalism, an ideology and concept usually associated with a particularly ruthless brand of free-market economics, has now reached into the very core services of the state and institutions that were once considered strictly off limits to financial speculators and entrepreneurs: the NHS, the prison system and the criminal justice system. Neo-liberalism doesn’t just involve a massive shift of economic power and wealth to an already extremely powerful and wealthy social group, but also a fundamental shift in the philosophy and policy of organisations like the welfare and criminal justice systems, both of whose ‘clients’ are now increasingly lumped together as an undifferentiated mass of the ‘undeserving poor’ or an always potentially criminal ‘underclass’ requiring an equal degree of punitive supervision, surveillance and ‘management’. For the poor the welfare state is becoming increasingly like a carceral state.
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Presos y Reforma Penitenciaria. A los 20 años de un debate ya realizado (Textos* y reflexiones sobre la COPEL) Carabanchel, 15 de enero de 1977

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Mientras los diputados aclaman por unanimidad la ley en su bonito hemiciclo, a 600km de distancia, en la prisión provincial de El Dueso alza su crítica voz contra la reforma uno de tantos miembros de la COPEL “Sr. García Valdés pienso que está cometiendo muchas equivocaciones. COPEL confía en la necesidad de llevar a cabo la reforma penitenciaria, pues ello supone una evolución de las condiciones de existencia en las prisiones, pero no olvide que también venimos luchando desde hace 2 años por la concesión legítima de otras reivindicaciones más importantes: indulto general, reforma del código penal, y abolición de peligrosidad y condenados por bandidaje y terrorismo. Vd. no ha comprendido que en justicia primero debería reformarse el código penal antes de llevar a cabo la reforma penitencia.
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Italia: Dossier sul carcere di Spini di Gardolo (Trentino)

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Dopo un po’ di discussioni sull’istituzione carceraria, dopo alcune riflessioni sia collettive che individuali, e dopo varie critiche e auto-critiche sul modo di lottare contro il carcere e la società che lo genera, abbiamo deciso di fare un opuscolo di approfondimento per conoscere meglio il nostro nemico. Come individui che anelano alla propria “libertà” non possiamo che odiare nel profondo di noi stessi tale struttura e chi vi “lavora” o chi vi collabora. Per noi il carcere non è solamente rappresentato da quelle mura che vediamo, ma anche dalle relazioni economiche, politiche e sociali che ruotano attorno a questa struttura. Per questo motivo abbiamo deciso di approfondire un po’ meglio tutte queste relazioni che si reggono sulla sofferenza di migliaia di uomini che sono rinchiusi in questi posti e sulla collaborazione di altri che contribuiscono a mantenere e a far funzionare la reclusione carceraria.

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Décadas de Prisión. La cárcel y sus habitantes (1977-2013)

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El texto que tienes en tus manos quizás surgió tirando la huincha, en interminables rondas de mate, en aburridas horas hastiados de la basura televisiva en una celda, en conversaciones durante un castigo, en recuerdos de amigos ya olvidados o muertos o quizás al ver una cara joven ingresando y siendo engullida por la bestia carcelaria…
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Pastora y Carmen, madres contra el sistema penitenciario y policial

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Pastora (madre de Xose Tarrio) y Carmen (madre de Diego Viña), dos madres luchadoras contra el sistema penitenciario y policial del Estado, nos cuentan la historia de sus hijos, fallecidos en custodia por el Estado.  Charla en Córdoba, en Octubre de 2008.
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