For the People’s Health
Abolition and public health go hand in hand. Organizers are embracing both as they pursue decarceral projects that center everyone’s well-being.
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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.
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.
There can be justice beyond punishment. To realize it, we must challenge the narrative that carceral violence is the only response to other forms of violence.
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 work of tearing down structures of harm while building the world we want can and must start small.
Life in prison is hard. Transitioning back home through reentry shouldn’t be harder.
Probation and parole in the United States don’t work. A longtime reformer and advocate has drawn a blueprint to end them.
The art of knowing what we’re confronting and revealing who is being made invisible by the carceral state.
Despite the stumbling blocks imposed by Republican state governments, abolition is happening in the South and in small towns, with organizing specially tailored to local needs.
Organizing and collective acts of resistance allow us to not only imagine new understandings of justice and safety, but to live them out.
The fight against police and prisons cannot be separated from the struggle to extend care beyond the limits of the family form.
Only an end to family court can lead to a radical reimagining of how we support children and caregivers.
Community-based gun violence prevention is at a crossroads. A group in Chicago shows how abolition may hold the key to its future.
Putting our ideas into practice—allowing ourselves to try, fail, and try again—will be how we move closer to a world without the harms of policing, prisons, and punishment.
In order to invest in a vision for a new way of living, we have to believe in our capacity to create something better—together.
So many people, on both sides of the prison wall, labor under threat of state violence. This opens a path to more robust, far-reaching worker solidarity.
How organizing workers in immigrant detention can serve as a foundation for abolition and liberation for all.
How one labor union in New York is organizing and creating solidarity among formerly incarcerated workers—and winning.
When academics are read more than incarcerated thinkers, it becomes possible to forget the movement’s radical roots.
The Court’s decision must not preempt questions about the role public defenders can play in ending mass incarceration.
“All of us who’ve been inside have healing to do. There are so many survivors in prison. And then surviving prison requires its own kind of healing.”
The criminal legal system heaps more violence on victims of gender-based violence. Abolishing these structures is the only way to protect them.
We need new words and understandings — not only for crime, freedom, and responsibility, but also for history and spacetime — because it gets us closer to an abolitionist world.
As 2022 draws to a close, we reflect on books that informed, inspired, and empowered us to envision a world without mass incarceration.
Pell grant restoration for incarcerated students is long overdue. But without infrastructure and safeguards, higher education, and true freedom, will remain elusive.
There is a place for desire in an abolitionist world, at least when desire is pleasure and love and freedom.