Prison abolition movement in the United States - Wikipedia
The prison abolition movement is a network of groups and activists that seek to reduce or eliminate prisons and the prison system, and replace them with systems of rehabilitation and education that do not focus on punishment and government institutionalization. [1]
Should We Abolish Prisons? - The New Yorker
Jul 22, 2024 · In response, a movement has begun for the abolition of prisons—not for prison reform, with fewer inmates in better institutions, but for the outright elimination of incarceration, on the implicit...
What Do Prison Abolitionists Really Want? - The Marshall Project
Jun 13, 2019 · Prison abolition has decades of antecedents, led by once-fringe figures like Angela Davis, the 1960s communist firebrand, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore, the subject in April of a sympathetic profile in the New York Times Magazine.
Should prisons be abolished? - New Internationalist
Mar 4, 2020 · Prisons damage people and have always been used by the powerful to control the most marginalized. But can society really do away with incarceration altogether? Kelsey Mohamed and Andrew Neilson go head to head.
The Work of Abolishing Prisons: A Q&A With Rachel Herzing and …
May 9, 2024 · How to Abolish Prisons demonstrates the diversity of abolitionist tactics—from formal campaigns to shutter jails and prisons to forming mutual aid efforts that also create space for...
What Is Prison Abolition? How Would It Work? - GQ
Jun 11, 2020 · To prison abolitionists, why is criminal justice reform based on a system like that insufficient? The prison-industrial complex isn’t broken. It’s doing exactly what it's meant to do.
The Emerging Movement for Police and Prison Abolition
May 7, 2021 · Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes about the activist Mariame Kaba and traces the history of movements to abolish prisons and defund the police, in the wake of the killings of George Floyd, Daunte...
The Movement To Abolish Prisons And The Police : 1A : NPR
Aug 18, 2020 · Since the killing of George Floyd by police officers, more and more of us have been taking a critical look at the criminal justice system. Polls show that most Americans support some kind of ...
Examining prison abolition — one volume at time - Harvard Gazette
Feb 22, 2022 · The prison abolition movement calls for not just structural reforms of the prison industrial complex, but dismantling of the entire system and replacing it with programs to deal with root causes of crime such as poverty, addiction, homelessness, and mental illness.
Instead of Prisons Nine Perspectives for Prison Abolitionists
Abolitionists learn how to walk the narrow line between relating to prisoners inside the system and remaining independent and "outside" that system. We resist the compelling psychological pressures to be "accepted" by people in the prison system.