Abolition
Abolition
“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
Articles
What Abolitionists Do
By Dan Berger, Mariame Kaba & David Stein Original article found here Prison abolitionists aren’t naive dreamers. They’re organizing for concrete reforms, animated by a radical critique
History is a Weapon – The Challenge of Prison Abolition: A ConversationThe Challenge of Prison Abolition
By A conversation between Angela Y. Davis and Dylan Rodriguez Original article found here Angela Y. Davis teaches in the History of Consciousness program at
Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists
Writers Fay Honey Knopp Barbara Boward Mary Jo Brach Scott Christianson Mary Ann Largen Julie Lewin Janet Lugo Mark Morris Wendy Newton Researchers Barbara Boward
Think prison abolition in America is impossible? It once felt inevitable
By Vincent Llyod Original article found here In the 1960s and 1970s, attorneys general and Republican congressmen were among the many arguing that prison was immoral.
Prison Reform Misdirection: 5 Caveats About Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration
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
Mama’s Bailout Day and Other Bottom-Up Interventions in Everyday Justice
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
Considering Abolition
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
Can Prison Abolition Ever be Pragmatic?
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
Ten Lessons for Creating Safety Without Police
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
Towards the horizon of abolition: A conversation with Mariame Kaba
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
A Jailbreak of the Imagination: Seeing Prisons for What They Are and Demanding Transformation
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
Thinking Through a World Without Police
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
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