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"Promoting unity and understanding across barriers through our unified struggle to
become better members of our unique society." I n t r o
PRISS
PRISM
Prisoners Refined In Strategio Motion
What is PRISM?
PRISM motivates prisoners to develop a productive sense of
community by sharing views, beliefs, experiences, struggles, successes, and
failures in an effort to assist in our daily struggles of life in prison and those
who come after us.
What does being a member of PRISM require?
- Meeting on a weekly basis
- Founding members contribute to our "lopfund" which helps prisoners on specific types of Loss
of Privilege status with hygiene items.
What are the benefits of PRISM?
- Sharing experiences and expertise
- Learning new things about each other
- Gaining beneficial knowledge to enhance lives, ours and others
- Combining talents
- Practicing public speaking if you want
- Get or give legal advice
- Help with Grievances and Disciplinary issues
- Unlear selfishness
- Monthly Newsletter
- Assistance with hygiene for non personal, unselfish L.O.P.
What are some goals of PRISM?
- Develop unity among our General Population
- Consistently promote positive changes
- Create space for wild, unrestrained brainstorming
How do you become a member of PRISM?
Show up wherever you see us meeting whether there are 2 of us or 20, you are welcomed
regardless of your history, crime, race, gender, religion, or arything else. You're better than good
enough, don't hesitate to corne and grow with us.
Arizona State Women's PRISM hopes for others
to start on their varas, too!
Hello! This is HTMD, your favorite underground pinta-newsletter!!! Due to technical difficulties the
last few segments of the year will have this same opening! Don't judge us, we are doing the best we can!
Here is a list of al 12 segments, if you want one come to a meeting and ask one of us for one. Most of us
in PRISM don't have much money so we aren't able to keep copies on hand, but we will be happy to
make them for you if you ask.
Issue 1 - PRISMs mission and the Tree-Tree interview
Issue 2 - HTMDs mission and Gender/Sex Terminology update
Issue 3 - Coverage of Perryville's Pro Palestine event
Issue 4 - GPs Responses to Surveys and eFiling issues
Issue S - MAT Program and JJ interview
Issue 6 - Are We Settling For UnFreedom? and Basic Grievance info
Issue 7 - 100 Definitions of "Terrorist" from the GenPop
Issue 8 - 100 Definitions of "Love" from the GenPop
Issue 9 - 100 Definitions of "Hate" from the GenPop
Issue 10 - Fighting For Our Rights and the Joycee interview
Issue 1 - Convict2Convict PRISM talks Zionism to Nakba and Nakba to 10/7
Issue 12 - Social Structure on the Yard
We appreciate your participation in all the surveys we did this year for HTMD and for improvements and
proposals on the Unit. We learned a lot about each other and we have accomplished some wonderful
things this year!
The Library is no longer allowing us to copy artwork, which sucks for those of us who send art out, and it
sucks for HTMD too because we wanted to add your art to next year's Issues. That's OK though, fuck em,
we'll work it out! If you have a poem, an essay, a problem, advice or anything else you want to share,
please get with one of us on the yard and we'd be happy to include your work.
This is a community newsletter, and we don't kiss ass to get it to you. We are a pig-free organization and
want to help each other learn how to work together, doing what we can, while we can, to practice as much
autonomy (self-reliance) as possible.
The design of prison is to make it completely dependent upon staff, even as they claim to be readying us
(some of us) for freedom. It is a lie. They know very wel without practicing autonomy, without the
ability to make substantial choices, without the slightest semblance of freedom, you wil fail. They act
like we are too stupid to make choices to condition us for failure. Recidivism is their business, literally,
don't be manipulated by their federally funded bullshit that claims to be aimed towards keeping you free.
Don't be made to believe they have al the answers, they either don't know the answers or lie the majority
of the time. You will stay free by staying away from them, not by staying up under them.
As mentioned, PRISM is autonomous, and we don't have leaders or authorities in our group. We meet as
equals and share what we know with each other.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR 2024
Gaining Knowledge
Starting PRISM and HTMD
Sharing knowledge about things we can't print
Completion of Jacquie's Trauma Counseling
Restarted Meetings after the Brutal Summer
Started Writing the play "We, Not Me"
Poetry Readings
Kryas' Art Class
GOALS FOR 2025
Get other autonomous groups started around the Yard
Fight to get a GED teacher
Fight to be allowed to purchase our Medical Records
Fight to paint our cells
Fight to get copays stopped again
More contributions for HTMD (arrices, poems etc)
Support each other and gain knowledge so we rarely need to ask staff for anything.
We move our meetings around depending on ICSs and other lockdowns, but we meet weekly, we'd love
for you to come! You can meet with us if you want, but you don't have to meet with PRISM to contribute
to HTMD. It takes us time to get everything together but we do our best and we appreciate your patience
as we try to make our environment better in a clean, healthy, autonomous (pig-free) way that improves
our lives, increases your odds of not coming back in a real, true and honest way and, incidentally, makes
their jobs easier.
Your Lifer friends are sick and tired of seeing you come back! We need you to get out and STAY OUT!
In Struggle,
Arizona State Women's PRISON