
The Role of Unions in Reducing Imprisonment
A labor organizing & campaign resource created by Critical Resistance January 2023 for Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)’s CA Prison Closure campaign, to close at least 10 prisons…
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A labor organizing & campaign resource created by Critical Resistance January 2023 for Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB)’s CA Prison Closure campaign, to close at least 10 prisons…
On January 12, 2023, Critical Resistance and Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) released a roadmap for prison closure in California, outlining a decarceral just transition framework to close…
In December 2022, The Marshall Project released a useful online tool to search what books are banned in each state’s prison system. From The Marshall Project: Banned Books Database Book…
All educational spaces, including colleges and universities, are strategic sites in the work to abolish the prison industrial complex (PIC). These charts break down the difference between reformist reforms which…
Collected by Interrupting Criminalization, Project Nia & Critical Resistance. Assembled for the Summer 2022 Allied Media Conference. The cover artwork was created by Micah Bazant, with binder design by Beck…
A toolkit for resisting the criminalization of abortions and reproductive agency by Interrupting Criminalization and Beyond Do No Harm Coalition partners (May 2022). Decriminalize+AbortionDownload…
In collaboration with Community Justice Exchange, Critical Resistance developed this toolkit to help organizers assess and move various efforts reforming pretrial and bail policy and practice towards prison industrial complex…
In 2020, Critical Resistance worked with Community Resource Hub, Movement for Black Lives, Interrupting Criminalization, Freedom Labs (PolicyLink, BYP100, Center for Popular Democracy, and Law for Black Lives), Database for Police Abolition, ACRE, Advancement Project, Alliance for Educational Justice, and Black…
How do we abolish policing? As demands to defund the police become more and more popular, how do we ensure these calls further on-the-ground work toward a vision of prison…
Organizing resource by members, community advisors, and friends of Critical Resistance: Beth Ritchie, Dylan Rodriguez, Mariame Kaba, Rachel Herzing, Melissa Burch and Shana Agid. Problems_w_CRBs_and_Proposals_for_AlternativesDownload…