A Thousand Possibilities
Abolition requires the world-building work of imagining all the many life-affirming alternatives to incarceration.
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Abolition requires the world-building work of imagining all the many life-affirming alternatives to incarceration.
Today’s labor movements must see the carceral state not just as a related progressive battle, but as central to the struggle for workers’ rights.
Ending prison slavery and giving fair wages to incarcerated workers are necessary steps on the pathway to justice.
An incarcerated writer and advocate in California implores: “Don’t waste my time trying to make it more comfortable for me in here.”
What does genuine safety look like? And what will it take to prioritize it rather than simply managing inequality and other injustices?
I was the same age as Michael Brown when he was killed. The uprising set me on the path to abolition.
A decade on, Ferguson remains central for those working toward a world free from the harms of policing and prisons.
Defund gives us a platform and pathway to reimagine a society with less police, more care, and services that meet the needs of all.
Films that imagine decarceral futures are a cultural antidote for the carceral messages and aesthetics so prevalent in popular media.
Social work must be anti-carceral, against oppression, and committed to ending the systems, structures, and ideologies that cause people harm.
Even before the uprisings in Minneapolis, communities have been radically reimagining a world that doesn’t depend on policing.
In seeking funding for non-carceral mental health crisis response, we're hoping to bring a small piece of our abolitionist horizon to our city.
When people need care, then the solution should be to get them care, not increase the risk of police violence.
Abolition and public health go hand in hand. Organizers are embracing both as they pursue decarceral projects that center everyone’s well-being.
A hopeful, practical new book shows how abolitionist organizers today are building the world anew.
They were incarcerated in Eastern Kentucky, far from home. Now they’re free and back, hoping the region won’t build a new prison there.
From sex work to sex offender registries, a queer politics requires that we end state practices of sex exceptionalism.
For many years, Kentuckians have been fighting the construction of a federal prison. They’ve been winning, but their fight isn’t over.
After Hurricane Katrina, law enforcement criminalized sex work and Black women like never before. We fought back—and won.
Reacquainting ourselves with practices that made prisons more permeable can be a step toward ending mass incarceration.
How might we reimagine our rights and liberties in the absence of incarceration?
A look at how decarceral, abolitionist filmmaking can help us envision new worlds.
As 2023 draws to a close, a look back at the books that informed, inspired, and empowered us to work for a world without mass incarceration.
The Gospel narrative places on Christians a moral burden to not turn away from the sexual vulnerability of incarcerated people today.
Black, Brown, Indigenous, disabled, and poor children and their families bear the brunt of a system that many now agree should be dismantled.
Attica represents far more than a historic rebellion about prison reform. Its revolutionary abolitionist vision endures today.
The work of tearing down structures of harm while building the world we want can and must start small.
Even among abolitionists, there's room for those who lack hope.
How the peaceful takeover of Walpole prison in 1973 holds lessons for abolitionists today.
The art of knowing what we’re confronting and revealing who is being made invisible by the carceral state.