Beyond Reform
Disability Justice Demands Abolition
When people need care, then the solution should be to get them care, not increase the risk of police violence.
3 posts in ‘disability rights’
When people need care, then the solution should be to get them care, not increase the risk of police violence.
Connecting it to the fight for disability rights has helped activists in California to make exciting progress in their effort to end solitary confinement.
Criminalizing pain medicine has led patients to despair while the carceral state forces their medical decisions. But it has also opened avenues for solidarity between pain sufferers and incarcerated people.