Its purpose is 'a union for the incarcerated,' with the goal of abolishing prison slavery, as well as fighting to end the exploitation of working-class people around the world.

[3][4] Peril is a veteran organizer with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), a group founded in 1905.

[6] On September 9, 2016, the IWOC helped organize a U.S. prison strike on the 45th anniversary of the Attica uprising.

[12] Two notable demands, for example, were that the Prison Litigation Reform Act be rescinded, and that inmates serving their sentences get their voting rights back, alongside pre-trial detainees and ex-convicts.

[16] The same year, the IWOC was among the groups that lobbied for the Florida Democrats to return a donation from G4S, a private prison contractor.