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…
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…
What is the Creative Interventions Toolkit? Beyond Prisons Episode featuring Mimi Kim & Rachel Herzing
Listen to this episode of Beyond Prisons podcast with Rachel Herzing and Mimi Kim discussing their work through Creative Interventions and the making of Creative Interventions Toolkit: An Invitation &…
Problems with Community Control of Police & Proposals for Alternatives
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…
Harm Free Zone Project General Framework by New York Harm Free Zone Collective
This document outlines basic principles and practices used to imagine building community-based harm free zones in New York City. New York Harm-Free Zone FrameworkDownload Learn more about Critical Resistance’s work…
Toward Transformative Justice Guide: A Liberatory Approach to Child Sexual Abuse & Others Forms of Intimate & Community Violence
A guidebook outlining Generation FIVE’s approach to transformative justice. The guide includes an overview of the theory and principles as well as tools for practicing transformative justice. “ A Call…
Things to Do with an Opiate/Heroin Overdose using Naloxone
The following tool is from Young Women Empowerment Project (YWEP)’s Girls Do What they Have to Do to Survive Report.…
Creative Interventions Toolkit: An Invitation & Practical Guide for Everyone to Stop Violence
Very extensive toolkit by Creative Interventions (nearly 600 pages). This toolkit lays out all of Creative Intervention’s strategies, steps, tools and lessons for intervening in situations of interpersonal harm. Thorough…