“Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) abolition is a political vision with the goal of eliminating imprisonment, policing, and surveillance and creating lasting alternatives to punishment and imprisonment. Abolition isn’t just about getting rid of buildings full of cages. It’s also about undoing the society we live in because the PIC both feeds on and maintains oppression and inequalities through punishment, violence, and controls millions of people. Because the PIC is not an isolated system, abolition is a broad strategy. An abolitionist vision means that we must build models today that can represent how we want to live in the future. It means developing practical strategies for taking small steps that move us toward making our dreams real and that lead us all to believe that things really could be different. It means living this vision in our daily lives.Abolition is both a practical organizing tool and a long-term goal.” – Critical Resistance
By Kay Witlock Original article found here | Photography by @loveandstrugglephotos Source: Prison Policy Initiative, http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2016.html. The August 2016 announcement by the Obama administration that it will phase
By Jocelyn Simonson Original article found here | Photography by @loveandstrugglephotos Money kept them in. Black love got them out. On Mother’s Day 2017, grassroots organizations across
By Mike Larsen Original article found here What is to be abolished? There is a recurring discussion in the abolitionist literature regarding the prefix that should
By NATHAN J. ROBINSON Original article found here Will incarceration always be a necessary evil? “While there is a lower class, I am in it, and
By Tasha Amezcua, Ejeris Dixon & Che J. Rene Long, Truthout Original article found here | Photography by @loveandstrugglephotos How can we create safety collectively? How can we challenge hate
Interview by John duda Original article found here | John Duda: I wanted to start by asking you about what it means to work for prison abolition
By Mariame Kaba & Kelley Hayes Original article found here | Our current historical moment demands a radical re-imagining of how we address various harms. The
By Mariame Kaba Reproduced with Permission | Original article found here | Photography by @loveandstrugglephotos Many people are more afraid of imagining a world without police than
By Angela Davis Original article found here
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