Instead of prisons: a handbook for abolitionists

Ex Prisoner press

Fortune News, The Fortune Society, 29 East 22nd Street, New York, New York 10010

The Outlaw, Prisoners' Union, 1315 18th Street, San Francisco, California 94107

Periodicals

Corrections Magazine, Correctional Information Service, Inc., 801 Second Avenue, New York 10017

Crime and Social Justice, A Journal of Radical

Criminology, Crime and Social Justice, 101 Haviland Hall, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720

Pretrial Justice Quarterly, American Friends Service Committee, 1300 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15219

Projects and organizations described

Alternative House, Inc., 109 Elm Street, Northeast, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102, [phone]

Citizens' Inquiry on Parole and Criminal Justice, Inc., 84 Fifth Avenue, Room 307, New York 10011, [phone]

Citizens' Local Alliance for a Safer Philadelphia (CLASP), 1710 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, [phone]

Community Assistance Project (CAP), 150 West 5th Street, Chester, Pennsylvania 19013, [phone]

COYOTE (Prostitute Empowerment), P.O. Box 26354, San Francisco, California 94126, [phone]

Delancey Street Foundation, 2563 Divisadero Street, San Francisco, California, [phone]

House of Umoja, 1436 North Frazier Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, [phone]

National Coalition to Ban Handguns, 100 Maryland Avenue, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002

National Council on Crime and Delinquency, Continental Plaza, 411 Hackensack Avenue, Hackensack, New Jersey 07601, [phone]

National Gay Task Force, Suite 506, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York 10011, [phone]

National Moratorium on Prison Construction, 3106 Mount Pleasant Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20010, [phone]

National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML), 275 Madison Avenue, Suite 1033, New York 10016, [phone]

National Prison Project, American Civil Liberties Union, 1346 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 1031, Washington, D.C. 20036, [phone]

Philadelphia Peoples' Bail Fund, 1411 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19102, (215) LO 4 1272

Prisoners' Union, 1315 18th Street, San Francisco, California 94107, [phone]

SCAPEGOAT (Prostitute Empowerment), 1540 Broadway, Suite 300H, New York 10036, (212) PL 7 6300

Victim /Offender Reconciliation Program( VORP), 8 Water Street North, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, [phone] or 745 4417

Workshop Manual: Instead of Prisons

Learn how to organize a productive weekend workshop on prison abolition! This useful manual will help you put the ideas suggested in Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists into action.

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Writers
Fay Honey Knopp
Barbara Boward
Mary Jo Brach
Scott Christianson
Mary Ann Largen
Julie Lewin
Janet Lugo
Mark Morris
Wendy Newton

Researchers
Barbara Boward
Mary Jo Brach
Amy Davidson
Blanche Gelber
Margaret Grammer
Dwight Greene
Fay Honey Knopp
Julie Lewin
David Martin

Editor
Mark Morris

PRISON RESEARCH EDUCATION ACTION PROJECT

Syracuse • New York • 1976

Designed by Mark Morris

Text typeset by O.B.U. Typesetters, New York City
Notes & captions typeset by WIN Magazine, Brooklyn
Printed by Faculty Press, Brooklyn

First Printing, December 1976

Second Printing, November 1977

Copyright © 1976, Fay Knopp, Coordinator PREAP & Jon Regier,

Executive Director New York State Council of Churches

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 76-62803

The reader's eye might trip over a few unusual spellings -- words such as "tho" and "thru." We have made these modest beginnings toward spelling reform because we are made uncomfortable by the idea of cutting down forests to make paper to print silent letters. -The editor

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