prison abolition

The Emerging Movement for Police and Prison Abolition

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Organizer Mariame Kaba is one of the leading public intellectuals behind the movement for the abolition of the institutions of policing and prisons and for a politics that imagines more humane alternatives. 

"Abolition Is...": A Roundtable

Several young scholar/activists reflect on how historical analysis can inform the contemporary prison abolition movement and alternative approaches to justice. 

Anything is Possible: Toward an Abolitionist Vision

by Marc Lamont Hill

Abolitionism is about more than dismantling prisons. It is also about building a world with universal access to safety, self-determination, freedom and dignity.

“Nothing Stirred in the Air”

by Stephen Dillon

The architecture of the "supermax" prison targets the senses and emotions of the incarcerated as a means of control in the wake of political organizing inside and outside of prisons in the 1960s and 1970s.