October 30th, 2025
A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon
By Eric King
Foreword by Raymond Luc Levasseur
Edited by Josh Davidson
“Eric King spent ten years in some of the worst prisons the world has ever seen. And lived to tell the story. A Clean Hell is a haunting, harrowing journey through hell and back, told with unflinching honesty and a crooked smile. Like Alexander Berkman and Martin Sostre before him, King keeps the anarchist flame burning—prison be damned.” —Dan Berger, author of Captive Nation
“Eric King is an antifascist, antiracist political activist who spent over a decade in the worst US federal prisons, including solitary confinement, and ADX, the nation’s most extreme and repressive prison, located in Colorado. A Clean Hell is a searing exposé and indictment of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the Department of Justice, and the US government. The use of violence, physical and mental torture, and retaliation by authorities all fuel Eric’s fight against the slow death of politically motivated imprisonment. For any activist, organizer, resister, or anyone studying American history, this is a guide to understand the viciousness of intended death by incarceration.” —Susan Rosenberg, former US political prisoner, writer, and teacher
