About Ann Hansen Ann Hansen served seven years of a life sentence in federal prisons. She is a prison abolition activist and author of Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla.. Books by Ann Hansen Remembering the Armed Struggle My Time with the Red Army Faction by (author) Margrit Schiller foreword by Ann Hansen afterword by Osvaldo Bayer Taking the Rap Women Doing Time for Society’s Crimes by (author) Ann Hansen Taking the Rap Women Doing Time for Society’s Crimes by (author) Ann Hansen Direct Action Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla by (author) Ann Hansen