prison abolition

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/7/2021
  

  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. 

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• SOURCE: Insurrect: Radical Thinking in Early American Studies
  5/10/2021
  

  "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. 

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• SOURCE: ROAR
  1/23/2021
  

  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.

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• SOURCE: Places Journal
  10/15/2020
  

  “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.