By studying its structure, its weaknesses become clear.

While it is true that a maximum-security prison is hardly expugnable, it nevertheless requires supplies and services that only outside companies can offer. Companies that can be found scattered throughout the territories where we live, sometimes in multiple locations and holding multiple business interests. Any one of them can be a good insight for a struggle inside a prison to resonate. Take a deep breath and attack.

If we can grasp the needs of the enemy – understand how it expands in the territory – how the state needs to collaborate with private companies to ensure the prison machine can keep crushing lives, then we can also understand how to stop it, slow down its restructuring processes, perhaps prevent the opening of new ones or the expansion of existing ones.

When people who are incarcerated start a struggle within the prison against maintenance costs or against the costs of living, and from the outside you are able to express your dissent, in your own ways, towards the companies specifically involved in the prisoners’ struggle you can make sure that the pressure comes from outside as well as inside and you can make something change. Not just shouting slogans in front of a wall or distributing flyers in the neighborhood: our struggles can also be expressed in more imaginative ways. By diversifying our actions and sharing information internationally about what is happening in our own countries’ prisons and who are the companies involved.