Writings on the Short Corridor Collective

View all information and the video of the Revolution 7/13 seminar on “George Jackson, Albert Woodfox, Paul Redd, and Revolutionary Prison Writing and Praxis” with Albert Woodfox, Paul ReddDarryl RobertsonJoy James, and Bernard E. Harcourt here: https://blogs.law.columbia.edu/revolution1313/7-13/

News Articles about the Short Corridor Collective

Good article about the Collective and its readings: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/short-corridor-isolated-prisoners-america-took-system-won/

On the hunger strike and aftermath: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/long-solitary-exists-will-find-way-use/

More on the strike in The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/starving-in-solitary

Writings on the Short Corridor Collective

McLeod, Allegra 2019. “Law, Critique, and the Undercommons,” 252–270, in A Time for Critique, ed. Didier Fassin and Bernard E. Harcourt. New York: Columbia University Press.

Harcourt, Bernard E.  2022. “George Jackson and the Revolutionary Cycles of Prison Writing,” Revolution 13/13 (blog), February 2, 2022

Harcourt, Bernard E. 2022. “Epilogue to George Jackson and Prison Writings,” Revolution 13/13 (blog), February 11, 2022

Documents from The Short Corridor Collective:

Agreement to End Hostilities (August 12, 2012): https://sfbayview.com/2021/07/agreement-to-end-hostilities/

Interview on the hunger strikes with Paul Redd and Ruben Jitu Williams: https://sfbayview.com/2021/07/decades-of-torture-hundreds-of-men-weeks-of-starvation-and-still-we-arent-free/ 

Paul Redd, “Statement of Paul Redd Pelican Bay State Prison SHU Windowless Cells Dungeon Resident to Victoria Law,” Truthout, July 19, 2013, https://truthout.org/articles/statement-of-paul-redd-pelican-bay-state-prison-shu-windowless-cells-dungeon-resident-to-victoria-law/.

 

Prison Writings / Writings on Prison Writing

George Jackson, Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson (New York: Lawrence Hill Books, 1994).

George Jackson, Blood In My Eye (Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1990).

Albert Woodfox, Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement (New York: Grove Press, 2019).

Joy James, The New Abolitionists: (Neo)slave Narratives And Contemporary Prison Writings(New York: SUNY Press, 2005).

Joy James, Writings and Works, https://sites.williams.edu/jjames/police-and-prison-abolitionism/.

Michel Foucault & The Prisons Information Group, Intolerable 3. The Assassination of George Jackson, in Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970–1980), ed. Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, trans. Perry Zurn and Erik Beranek (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021).

On Ashker v. Governor of California

Deposition of Paul Redd in Ashker v. Governor of California: https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/assets/files/pelicanbay/Redd_transcript.pdf

“Statement of plaintiffs on settlement of Asker v. Governor of California,” CCR, August, 31, 2015, https://ccrjustice.org/statement-plaintiffs-settlement-ashker-v-governor-california.

Other Resources

“Episode 61: August 21, 1971,” Earhustle (podcast),https://www.earhustlesq.com/episodes/2021/9/8/august-21-1971.