#17 Adiós Prisión

The story of the most spectacular escapes

Today I have for you a collection of prison escape stories sent in from a fan of the site, they are from a 1995 Spanish publication by Juan José Garfia translated into English from the Italian vers by Barbara Stefanelli. This is a better intro than I could write:

’This book talks about freedom, the urgent need for freedom and the impossibility of living without it. This book says that freedom must be taken back at all costs and that is exactly what the protagonists of Adiós Prisión, Spanish prisoners under the infamous FIES regime, did: they took back their freedom using all means necessary, challenging the impossible, ready to kill for it if necessary. There is no room for political correctness or abstract morals concerning human life here: if the screws keep you locked up and your life, even in its most banal and insignificant aspects, is at the mercy of their caprice, violence and stupidity, your only choice is to eliminate them if they put themselves between you and your freedom.

The protagonists of this book are not passive subjects of the prison system, on the contrary they are well aware of the fact that prison is the absolute negation of human dignity. As FIES prisoners they are experiencing directly how human beings will never adapt to life in prison, and their most impelling need is to escape in order to put an end to a situation that is unendurable.’

Read in full: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/juan-jose-garfia-adios-prision
Listen in full: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=joFVG0BAdDk&list=PL0m5XHCzk54e2npSw5ZNB-VSYjTrb-q7C&index=1

-AA