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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Roadmap for Prison Closure: Close California Prisons now!
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…
The Banned Books in Your State Prisons: Search Engine & Database by The Marshall Project
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…
Policing & Militarism on Campus: Reformist Reforms vs Abolitionist Steps
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…
Beyond Criminal Courts
In 2022, Critical Resistance, Interrupting Criminalization and Community Justice Exchange created a new toolkit and online resource hub for resisting criminalization through courts and the court system. The “Beyond Criminal…
So is this actually an abolitionist strategy or proposal? Resource Binder
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…
Abortion Decriminalization is Part of the Larger Struggle Against Policing & Criminalization by Interrupting Criminalization
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…
Sneak Peek into Issue 35: One Year Later…
This three-angle interview reflecting on abolitionist organizing in the last year since the murder of George Floyd was published in Issue 35 of The Abolitionist in July, 2021. With a…
On the Road Toward Freedom: An Abolitionist Assessment of Pretrial & Bail Reforms
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…
Defund Policing Website
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…