Prison Industrial Complex

[close] We are a group of local readers dedicated to building a network of people that can become the catalyst for the praxis of anti-racist theory by establishing links between communities on the inside and outside of our carceral system.

[close] This is the booklist and book recommendation group for Red Light Reader: an organization that hosts a bookclub podcast in New York City which focuses on gender, labor and technology. Created as a platform to facilitate dialogue about sex worker rights and its intersections with technology, race, migration, labor, lgbtq, and women's rights. 

[close] We read books on the prison industrial complex, prison abolition, and the lives of ex-cons, drug users, drug dealers, sex workers, illegal immigrants, the homeless, and others who systematically have their lives criminalized, particularly in the United States. Our mission is to raise awareness, not to 'save,' but to increase readers' ability to see people from all walks of life as equal, human, and deserving of protection under the law. We hope to convince people that when the law criminalizes for no cause but capturing money and labor and maintaining class, race, and sex/gender divides, then aware and active citizens must agitate for change.