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

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

Introduction: Prison Reform or Prison Abolition? Are Prisons Obsolete
By Angela Davis Original article found here
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Media
Breaking Down the Prison Industrial Complex Video Project
By | Critical Resistance
Tags: critical resistiance, videos, prison abolition, activistm, key concepts
“The PIC Is…”
By | Chicago Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) Teaching Collective
Tags: Video, zine, "The PIC is...", project nia, chicago pic teaching collective
Shadow Proof
By | Beyond Prisons Podcast
Tags: beyond prisons, podcast, incarceration, prison abolition, impacted persons, stories
No One Is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition
By | Barnard Center for Research on Women
Tags: video, dean spade '97, reina gosset, abolition, creating saftey, trans communities
IS PRISON ABOLITION POSSIBLE?
By | Osyris Antham, Mariame Kaba, Joshua Dubler & Victoria Law
Beyond Reform: Abolishing Prisons
by | Maya Schenwar | TEDx Baltimore
Tags: webinar, criminalization, domestic violence, non profit, service, liberation, first responders
Beyond The Prison Industrial Complex
by | Ruth Wilson Gilmore
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Queer (In)Justice with Joey Mogul
By | The Lit Review
Tags: podcast,Joey Mogul, queer (in)justice , Prison Industrial Complex,riminalization, LGBTQ people.
Beyond Punishment: The Movement for Transformative Justice
By | Rustbelt Abolition Radio
Tags: soundcloud, audio, interveiws, Mia Mingus, Maya Schenwar, and Claudia Gracias Rojas, transformative justice, prison abolition, alternatives to incarceration.
Two Sides of Justice
By | Two Sides of Justice
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Tags: audio, narratives, formerly incarcerated, survivors
Against the Grain – April 3, 2013
By | Dean Spade | 94.1 KPFA
Tags: caudio, radio program, dean spade, LGBTQ, criminalization, mainstream
JUSTICE IN AMERICA EPISODE 20: MARIAME KABA AND PRISON ABOLITION
By | Justice In america | Josie Duffy Rice & Clint Smith with Mariame Kaba
Tags: Mariame Kaba, radio program, Clint Smith, Josie Duffy Rice,
Thinking about how to abolish prisons with Mariame Kaba
By | Chris Hayes speaks with prison abolitionist Mariame Kaba about what it would take to dismantle the current “criminal punishment system.”
New Year, Who Dis? Exploring Our Political Grounding: Abolition
by | Law for Black Lives
Implementing Abolition: How to Create Just & Lasting Decarceration
Speakers: Pooja Gehi: Executive Director, National Lawyers Guild Rev. Jason Lydon, Founder, Black & Pink Oren Nimni: Staff Attorney, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Azadeh Shahshahani: Legal & Advocacy Director, Project South Dean Spade: Founder, Sylvia Rivera Law Project Panagioti Tsolkas: Founding Member, Fight Toxic Prisons Carl Williams: Executive Director, Water Protector Legal Collective
Ep4: Abolition Today (Maya Schenwar)
by | The Next Question
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Curriculum
Introduction to the Prison Industrial Complex
Toolkit by | The Chicago Prison Industrial Complex Teaching Collective
#NoCopsNoGuns: Student Walkout Toolkit
Toolkit by | Advancement Project and Philadelphia Student Union
The Abolitionist Toolkit
Toolkit by | Critical Resistance
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Other Resources | Links
Reformist Reforms vs. Abolitionist steps in policing
By | Critical Resistance
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