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Prison Activist Resource Center (PARC) is an all volunteer prison activist organization located at 1904 Franklin St. #515, Oakland, California

Oakland, California

Oakland is a major West Coast port city on San Francisco Bay in the U.S. state of California. It is the eighth-largest city in the state with a 2010 population of 390,724...

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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

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

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.

Human rights
Human rights
Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
Prison abolition movement
Prison abolition movement
The prison abolition movement seeks to abolish prisons and the prison system. The movement advocates for the abolition of prisons and the prison system on the basis of it being ineffective. Prison abolitionists present a broad critique of the modern criminal justice system, which they believe to...
Prison-industrial complex
Prison-industrial complex
"Prison–industrial complex" is a term used to attribute the rapid expansion of the US inmate population to the political influence of private prison companies and businesses that supply goods and services to government prison agencies. The term is analogous to the military–industrial complex that...
Prison reform
Prison reform
Prison reform is the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, aiming at a more effective penal system.-History:Prisons have only been used as the primary punishment for criminal acts in the last couple of centuries...

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