Abolition Requires Disability Justice
The following article is a sample from Issue 33 of The Abolitionist which features pieces on the COVID-19 pandemic and introduces the newspaper’s new structure, including a section of new,…
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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…
Intro to the Prison Industrial Complex 101: Workshop
Intro to PIC full curriculumDownload PIC DefinitionDownload PIC-Abolition-Concentric-Circles-front-back-handoutDownload PIC101 words- NEW 2015!Download…
Toward the Abolition of Imprisonment: Dismantling Jails
How and why are jail fights a crucial part of the movement for abolition? Critical Resistance has focused on fighting jails specifically, because jails are an integral component in the…
Abolitionist Responses to Jail Expansion & Reform
Bandaid fixes or real solution? Reform or Abolition? This chart helps clarify what efforts are abolitionist changes and which are reformist measures the legitimize and maintain the PIC when fighting…
Words Across Walls: Discussing Modes of Communication with TGIJP and Calls From Home
Shared organizing across prison walls comes with its own unique difficulties, especially with regard to maintaining networks of communication. Relationships between imprisoned and non-imprisoned people are stifled at once by…
Sneak Peek into Issue #30 of The Abolitionist!
Check out and share this beautiful, concise, and politically sharp resource titled, “How People on the Outside Can Support the Political Work of People on the Inside,” written by imprisoned…
A World Without Walls: Stopping Harm & Abolishing the Prison Industrial Complex
Issue 16 of CR’s The Abolitionist Newspaper (printed in 2012) imagined life after the prison industrial complex is abolished. The following sample article below, leading accountability and anti-violence practitioners (Mimi…
Lincoln Detox Center: The People’s Drug Program
Interview with Vicente “Panama” Alba, by Molly Porzig What was the Lincoln Detox Center? How did it start and why? This article is a sneak peek from The Abolitionist No. 19: Mental…
Agreement to End Hostilities
The Agreement to End Hostilities is a historic document of prisoner organizing and resistance, written in 2012 by the “Short Corridor Collective,” a multi-racial group of prisoners in Short Corridor…