Image by Kevin Caplicki.
Created for the Critical Resistance ten year anniversary conference in Oakland, California, which took place in 2008. Critical Resistance Ten was a gathering of activists, educators, and allies of prisoners who came together to promote organizing efforts against the monstrous excesses of the US prison system.
Justseeds organized an art portfolio in collaboration with Critical Resistance Ten called Voices From Outside: Artists Against the Prison Industrial Complex. The portfolio project involved twenty artists and one artist collective, with work coming from the US, Canada and Mexico. Each print critiqued or addressed alternatives to the prison-industrial complex.
A medieval looking guard tower looms squarely in the center of this image, flanked by tall walls. In the area above the small entrance door, the words “Correctional Facility.” Below the structure, a radiating triptych of circling arrows. These feature different phrases: “Drug addiction, Mental health, Homelessness, Unemployment. Poverty”.
