Prison Activist Resource Center
- Prison Activist Resource Center
Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) is an all volunteer prison activist organization located at 1904 Franklin St. #515, Oakland, California.
PARC's aim is to become the leading source for progressive and radical information on prisons and the criminal prosecution system in the United States.
Main Goals
* To expose the myths that sustain widespread injustices in prisons and in the communities most affected by mass imprisonment.
* To inspire and motivate people to take positive action against the mass-incarceration system and for prisoners' human and civil rights.
* To provide practical support to activists who are taking such action.
ee also
*Human rights
*Prison abolition movement
*Prison-industrial complex
*Prison reform
External links
* [http://www.prisonactivist.org/ Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) website]
* [http://www.allofusornone.org/ All of Us or None]
* [http://www.criticalresistance.org/ Critical Resistance]
* [http://www.iww.org/en/projects/gdc IWW General Defense Committee]
* [http://indymedia.us/en/topic/prisonissues/archive.shtml IndyMedia.us/Prison & Prisoners]
* [http://prisonsucks.com/ Prison Sucks]
* [http://breakthechains.net/ Break the Chains]
* [http://www.amnestyusa.org/outfront/document.do?id=A3DD42FEE6FE143D802569000068A308 Amnesty International/ LGBT abuse in america]
* [http://www.hrw.org/backgrounder/usa/incarceration/ Human Rights Watch Report on the Incarceration Situation within the United States]
* [http://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/prison/ Human Rights Watch Report on Male Rape in U.S. Prisons]
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