The day I picked up this zine, the Globe and Mail had a headline that declared the US prison population was declining. Reading the article, I found out that the prison population had dropped .5 of a percentage point. The US still has one of the highest rates of incarceration in the world. Activist and anarchist Anthonly Rayson is committed to fighting this fact. He publishes his own zines as well as helps to distribute prisoners’ zines. This particular effort is well written and informative pub that gives an overview of prisoner zines and how to gain access to them. Also included are poems and testimonies by prisoners. The voice of the prisoner is not one you often hear in society. Anthony is working to rectify this. He believes that the prison system is ground zero in the struggle against global capitalism and that prisons represent so much of what is wrong in our sick society. (Jeffrey Mackie)
zine, free, 37 pages, Anthony Rayson, South Chicago ABC Zine Distro, PO. Box 721 Homewood, IL, 60430