A People's Guide to Abolition

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A PEOPLE’S GUIDE TO ABOLITION A Collaborative & Working Abolitionist Resource Document

PURPOSE Created by C ourt Watch NYC volunteers, the purpose of this document is to provide a guide to abolitionist texts, videos, organizations, and other resources for movement builders to use to inform theoretical framework and political action. We recognize this document only scratches the surface of the extraordinary work being done by activists, organizers, scholars, and community members every day -- this means this guide is far from complete. This is a collaborative working document, so if you have any resources or organizations you’d like to contribute, please email Tommy at [email protected].

INFORMATION SOURCES In the creation of this guide, Court Watch NYC referenced various advocacy libraries, research guides, and impactful work of other abolition-focused coalitions. We credit the work of the following organizations and coalitions as informational sources for this document.

Abolitionist Futures: a collaboration of community organisers and activists in the UK and Ireland who are working together to build a future without prisons, police and punishment

Black Perspectives Blog: an award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) -- a group of engaged scholars deeply committed to producing and disseminating cutting-edge research that is accessible to the public and is oriented towards advancing the lives of people of African descent and humanity

Critical Resistance: an abolitionist coalition that seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe

Project NIA: a grassroots organization that works to end the arrest, detention, and incarceration of children and young adults by promoting restorative and transformative justice practices

Survived and Punished: an abolitionist organization whose work specifically focuses on criminalized survivors to raise awareness about the integrated relationship between systems of punishment and the pervasiveness of gender violence

A World Without Police: a collective of organizers dedicated to connecting people struggling against the everyday violence of the police, and to provide practical, organizational and theoretical tools for use in our movement

Last Updated: 6/27/20 Table of Contents

Criminal Injustice & Mass Incarceration 3

Abolitionist Actions vs. Reformist Reforms 6

Black Lives Matter & Racial Equity 9

The War on Poverty & For-Profit Driven Surveillance 12

Gender, Queerness, & Carceral Feminism 15

Disability Justice 18

Crimmigration & Abolishing ICE 21

Reimagining Justice & Abolition Organizing 24

Organizations & Coalitions to Support 27

NOTE: All books are linked to publisher’s sites, but we recommend buying from one of the B lack-owned bookstores on this list.

2 Criminal Injustice & Mass Incarceration

BOOKS

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Punishment and Inequality in America Prisons, and Torture (2005) by Angela (2006) by Bruce Western Davis The Rise of the Penitentiary: Prisons and Buried Lives: Incarcerated in Early Punishment in Early America (1992) by America (2012) by Michele Lise Tarter, Adam J. Hirsch Richard Bell Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison Empire (2010) Robert Perkinson Prison-Industrial Complex (2005) by Julia Sudbury Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, (2019) by Danielle Sered and Opposition in Globalizing California (2007) by Ruth Wilson Gilmore FILMS, PODCASTS, & VIDEOS A Kind and Just Parent: The Children of Juvenile Court (1998) by William Ayers “The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Urban Liberty's Prisoners: Carceral Culture in America” (2011) – Video, Harvard Early America (2015) by Jen Manion University Press

Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in “District Attorneys: The Most Powerful the Age of Crisis (2008, new edition) by People You’ve Never Heard Of” (2018) – Christian Parenti Podcast, The Appeal

Locked In: The True Causes of Mass “Driving While Black, A Tale of Two Incarceration-and How to Achieve Real Tickets” (2019) – Video, Robert Reich & Reform ( 2017) by John Pfaff W. Kamau Bell

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in “The Foundation of the Social and the Age of Colorblindness (2010) by Criminal Justice System” (2019) – Video, Michelle Alexander Dr. Maxine Bryant

One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black in the American South, 1866-1928 Liberation | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor” (1996) by Matthew J. Mancini (2016) – Video, T EDx Talks

3 “How Our Criminal Justice System “The Causes of Growth in Prison Targets Communities” (2016) – Video, Admissions and Populations” by John AJ+ Pfaff for Columbia University

“Mass Incarceration, Visualized” (2015) – “Community Accountability: Emerging Video, T he Atlantic Movements to Transform Violence” (2011) edited by Ana Clarissa Rojas “Mass Incarceration” (2019) – Podcast, Durazo, Alisa Bierria, Mimi Kim Throughline by NPR “The Crisis of Criminalization: A Call for “Racial Disparities Within the Criminal Comprehensive Philanthropic Response” Justice System” (2019) – Podcast, The (2017) created by Dr. Beth Richie, Liberation Experience Andrea J. Ritchie, & the Barnard Center for Research on Women Slavery by Another Name (2012) – Film, PBS "From Military Industrial Complex to Prison Industrial Complex” (2005) by “Slavery, Mass Murder, and the Birth of Ruth Wilson Gilmore for Recording American Policing” (2020) – Podcast, Carceral Landscapes Project Behind the Police “The History of Mass Incarceration” “Stop Hugging Cops” (2019) – Podcast, (2018) by James Cullen for the Brennan Beyond Prisons Institute for Justice

“How We Misunderstand Mass ARTICLES, ESSAYS, AND REPORTS Incarceration” (2017) by Adam Gopnick for the N ew Yorker Abolish the Police? Organizers Say It’s Less Crazy Than It Sounds (2016) by “Mass Detention & PIC” from C hicago Maya Dukmasova for Chicago Reader PIC Collective & the C hicago New Sanctuary Coalition “Black & Blue: History and Current Manifestations of Policing, Violence & “Mass Incarceration in America, Resistance” website from Project NIA Explained in 22 Maps and Charts” (2016) and the Chicago PIC Teaching Collective by German Lopez for Vox News

“Capitalizing on Mass Incarceration: U.S. “Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie” Growth in Private Prisons” (2018) by (2020) from Prison Policy Initiative Kara Gotsch, Vinay Basti for T he Sentencing Project “An Open Letter to Our Friends on the Question of Language” from The Center for NuLeadership on Urban Solutions

4 “A Primer on Mass Incarceration” (2018) from P rison Diaries “Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and “Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Transformation in Postwar American Beyond the New Jim Crow” (2012) by History” (2010) by Heather Ann James Forman Jr. in N ew York University Thompson Law Review

“Rising Incarceration Rates” (2014) from The Growth of Incarceration in the United States: Exploring Causes and Consequences by the National Research Council

“The Societal Impact of the Prison Industrial Complex, or Incarceration for Fun and Profit—Mostly Profit” (2012) by Alex Friedmann in Prison Legal News

”Three Reasons Advocates Must Move Beyond Demanding Release for “Nonviolent Offenders” (2020) by Micah Herskind in M edium

“To End Mass Incarceration, Our Society Must Look Beyond the ‘Non-Violent Drug Offenses” (2016) by Asar Amen in The Abolitionist, A Publication of Critical Resistance

“The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration” (2017) by Vesla Weaver in the B oston Review

“What is the Prison Industrial Complex?” from the Empty Cages Collective

“Why Did the U.S. Prison Population Increase So Much?” from Hanyang University

5 Abolitionist Actions vs. Reformist Reforms

BOOKS Who Do You Serve? Who Do You Protect? (2016) by Joe Macaré, Maya Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy Schenwar, and Alana Yu-lan Price and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex (2010) by CR-10 Publications Collective FILMS, PODCASTS, & VIDEOS

Against Equality: Prisons Will Not Protect “Abolishing Prisons with Mariame Kaba” You (2012) by Ryan Conrad (2017) – Podcast, Why Is This Happening? with Chris Hayes Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003) by Angela Davis “Abolition and COVID-19 w/ Mohamed Shehk, Emmy Rakete & Ruth Wilson Beyond Survival (2020) edited by Ejeris Gilmore” (2020) – Video, T he Red Nation Dixon, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha “Abolition Can’t Wait: A Teach-In with #8toAbolition” (2020) – Video, The End of Policing ( 2018) by Alex Vitale Haymarket Books

The End of Prisons: Reflections from the “Angela Davis likens abolishing the Decarceration Movement (2013) edited prison system to end of slavery” (2020) – by Anthony J. Nocella II Video, Best of George Strombo

Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Beyond Prisons – Podcast Consequences of Popular Reforms (2020) by Maya Schenwar, Victoria Law “Building Accountable Communities” (2018) – Video, B arnard Center for Rectify: The Power of Restorative Justice Research on Women After Wrongful Conviction (2018) by Lara Bazelon “The Economy of Incarceration: Ruth Wilson Gilmore” (2015) – Video, T he The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Laura Flanders Show Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (2017) by INCITE! Women of “Mariame Kaba and Prison Abolition” Color Against Violence (2019) – Podcast, Justice in America

Undoing Border Imperialism (2013) by “Naomi Murakawa & #BlackLivesMatter: Harsha Walia Liberals, Guns and the Roots of the U.S. Prison Explosion” (2015) – Video, T he Laura Flanders Show

6 “Campaigning For and Campaigning “Not Alone” (2017) – Podcast, D elete Against Prisons: Excavating and Your Account Reaffirming the Case for Prison Abolition” (2007) by Mick Ryan, Joe Sim “On the Road With Abolition: Assessing in H andbook on Prisons Our Steps Along the Way” (2012) – Video, Critical Resistance a nd H aymarket “Considering Abolition” (2011) by Mike Books Larson in Rittenhouse Just Blog

“Police: Last Week Tonight with John “‘Destroy All Prisons Tomorrow’: IWOC Oliver (HBO)” (2020) – Video, Last Week Responds To Jacobin” (2017) by the Tonight with John Oliver Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee in It’s Going Down Rustbelt Abolition Radio – Podcast “From Military Industrial Complex to “Ruth Wilson Gilmore Makes the Case for Prison Industrial Complex” (2005) by Abolition” (2020) – Podcast, T he Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Trevor Paglen in Intercept Recording Carceral Landscapes

The Work ( 2017) – Film, dir. Jairus “Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson McLeary, Gethin Aldous Gilmore Might Change Your Mind” (2019) by Rachel Kuchner in the New York Times ARTICLES, ESSAYS, & REPORTS “A Jailbreak of the Imagination: Seeing #8toAbolition (2020) by Mon Mohapatra, Prisons for What They Are and Leila Raven, Nnennaya Amuchie, Reina Demanding Transformation” (2018) by Sultan, K Agbebiyi, Sarah T. Hamid, Mariame Kaba & Kelly Hayes in Truthout Micah Herskind, Derecka Purnell, Eli Dru, Rachel Kuo “The Myth of Liberal Policing” (2017) by Alex Vitale in The New Inquiry “Abolish the Police. Instead, Let’s Have Full Social, Economic, and Political “Nine Perspectives for Prison Equality” (2015) by Mychal Denzel Smith Abolitionists” & in T he Nation “Diminishing/Dismantling the Prison System” (1976) by the Prison Research “Against Rehabilitation: For Reparative Education Project from Instead of Justice” (2012) lecture by Professor Pat Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists Carlen “Police ‘Reforms’ You Should Always “Before the Law” (2014) by Jennifer Oppose” (2014) by Mariame Kaba in Gonnerman in the New Yorker Truthout

7 “The Price of Defunding the Police” “What is Prison Abolition?” (2018) by (2017) by Brentin Mock John Washington in T he Nation

“Prison Abolition FAQ” (2020) by K “Why the Justice Department Can’t Be Agbebiyi Trusted to Investigate Abysmal Conditions in Federal Prisons” (2019) by “Prison Reform Misdirection: 5 Caveats Natasha Lennard in T he Intercept About Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration” (2016) by Kay Whitock in “You Can’t End Violence With More Beacon Broadside Violence: Shifting From Incarceration to Accountability” (2017) by Sarah Jaffe in “Prisons Cannot Be Places of Truthout Rehabilitation” (2016) by John Moore

“Rethinking Our Justice System: Understanding Abolition in the UK” (2020) by Hajera Begum in Amaliah

“Ten Lessons for Creating Safety Without Police” (2016) by Tasha Amezcua, Ejeris Dixon, & Che J. Rene Long in T ruthout

”Transatlantic Visions: Resisting the Globalization of Mass Incarceration” (2000) by Julia Sudbury in Social Justice 27

“What Abolitionists Do” (2017) by Dan Berger, Mariame Kaba, David Stein in Jacobin Magazine

“’What About the Rapists?’ Anarchist Approaches to Crime and Justice”

“What Does Justice Look Like Without Prisons?” (2018) by Oonagh Ryder for Novaramedia.com

“What is Abolition?” from Critical Resistance

Black Lives Matter & Racial Equity

BOOKS (2006) by Ruth D. Peterson, Lauren J. Krivo, & John Hagan Ain't Scared of Your Jail: Arrest, Imprisonment, and The Civil Rights The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Movement (2012) by Zoe A. Colley Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings ( 2005) by Joy James Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation (2012) by Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Beth E. Richie Canada from Slavery to the Present (2017) by Robyn Maynard Black Prisoners and Their World (2000) by Mary Ellen Curtin Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter ( 2016) by Chained in Silence: Black Women and Jordan T. Camp, Christina Heatherton Convict Labor in the South (2015) by Talitha L. LeFlouria Punishing Race: A Continuing American Dilemma (2012) by Michael Tonry The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban Slavery by Another Name: The America ( 2019) by Khalil Gibran Re-Enslavement of Black Americans Muhammad from the Civil War to World War II (2009) by Douglas Blackmon Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (2015) by Simone Browne Slaves of the State: Black Incarceration from the Chain Gang to the Penitentiary Invisible Men: Mass Incarceration and (2015) by Dennis Childs the Myth of Black Progress (2012) by Becky Pettit Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs (2007) by Doris Marie Provine Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color ( 2017) by Andrea J. Ritchie FILMS, PODCASTS, & VIDEOS

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and 13th (2016) – Film dir. Ava DuVernay Punishment in Black America (2018) by James Forman Jr. “1619” – Podcast, N ew York Times

The Many Colors of Crime: Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America

9 “Angela Davis: We can't eradicate racism “Challenging Convictions: Indigenous without eradicating racial capitalism” and Black Race-Radical Feminists (2020) – Video, D emocracy Now! Theorizing the Carceral State and Abolitionist Praxis in the United States “The Condemnation of Blackness” (2011) and Canada” (2016) by Lena Palacios – Video, Harvard University Press “For Blacks Facing Parole in New York “The First Civil Right – Naomi Murakawa State, Signs of a Broken System” (2016) & Eddie Glaude” (2015) – Video, by Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz, & Princeton AAS Robert Gebeloff in the N ew York Times

“From #BlackLivesMatter to Black “From the Prison of Slavery to the Liberation | Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor” Slavery of Prison: Frederick Douglass and (2016) – Video, T EDx Talks the Convict Lease System” (1998) by Angela Davis “Knowing How It's Built, So That We Can Tear It Down” (2019) – Podcast, The “History of the Establishment of the Breakdown with Shaun King London Metropolitan Police” (2018) on Drawn Out Thinking “Race: Prison & Justice” (2019) – Podcast, Therapy Extended with Liza “Living While Black and The Young Criminalization of Blackness” (2018) by P.R. Lockhart for Vox.com “Robert Reich & W. Kamau Bell: Driving While Black, A Tale of Two Tickets” “Pathways, Race and Gender Responsive (2019) – Video, R obert Reich Reform: Through an Abolitionist Lens” (2013) by Emma K. Russell, Bree Carlton Strong Island (2017) – Movie in T heoretical Criminology

“Throughline” – Podcast, NPR “Policing Black Radicalism” (2016) by Amna A. Akbar in J acobin Magazine “Two Faces of Race in the Criminal Justice System” (2019) – Podcast, “Race and America’s Prisons: It’s Everyday Conversations on Race for Complicated” (2013) by Gene Demby for Everyday People Code Switch! by NPR

“Race, Capitalist Crisis, and Abolitionist ARTICLES, ESSAYS, & REPORTS Organizing: An Interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore” (2010) by Jenna Loyd “The Black Girl Pushout” (2016) by Melinda D. Anderson in T he Atlantic “Racial and Ethnic Disparity in Prisons and Jails” (2016) by Prison Policy Initiative

“Reducing Racial Disparity in the Criminal Justice System: A Manual for Practitioners and Policymakers” by The Sentencing Project

“Schools and the No-Prison Phenomenon: Anti-Blackness and Secondary Policing in the Black Lives Matter Era” (2017) by Lynette Parker in Black Lives Matter and the Education Industrial Complex

“The Scourge of Racial Bias in New York State Prisons” (2016) by Michael Winerip, Michael Schwirtz, & Robert Gebeloff in the N ew York Times

“Stealing Away in America” (2020) by Zoé Samudzi for J ewishCurrents.org

“We Are Not Slaves: Rethinking the Rise of Carceral States through the Lens of the Prisoners' Rights Movement” (2015) by Robert T. Chase in the J ournal of American History

“We Will Not Settle in Our Pursuit of Racial Equity” (2019) by Genia Wright for Vera Institute

11 The War on Poverty & For-Profit Surveillance

BOOKS Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor ( 2002) by Tara Herivel, Carceral Capitalism (2015) by Jackie Paul Wright Wang Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Change Everything: Racial Capitalism Government of Social Insecurity (2009) and the Case for Abolition (2020) by by Loïc Wacquant Angela Davis Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Cops, Crime and Capitalism: The Law and Political Economy of Convict Labor in the Order Agenda in Canada ( 2006) by Todd New South (1996) by Alex Lichtenstein Gordon

The Culture of Control: Crime and Social FILMS, PODCASTS, & VIDEOS Order in Contemporary Society (2001) by David Garland “Debtors' Prisons: Life Inside America’s For-Profit Justice System (1/2)” (2016) – The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Video, V ICE Prison America (2014) by Naomi Murakawa “The Economy of Incarceration: Ruth Wilson Gilmore” (2015) – Video, T he From the War on Poverty to the War on Laura Flanders Show Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America (2017) by Elizabeth Hinton “Ep. 10: Private Prison Divestment with Dalit Baum & Alex Friedmann” (2019) – How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black Podcast, Reframing Justice America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society (2015) by “How Democrats and Republicans Manning Marable, Leith Mullings Created Mass Incarceration” (2018) – Podcast, Justice in America Inside Private Prisons: An American Dilemma in the Age of Mass “The Inmate Economy: Sheriffs Shuffle Incarceration (2019) by Lauren-Brooke Prisoners To Battle Overcrowding” Eisen (2018) – Podcast, Law and Criminal Justice Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order ( 2013) by Stuart Hall, “The Making of Mass Incarceration in Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John America” (2016) – Podcast, KPFA - Clarke, Brian Roberts Letters and Politics

12 “On the Economics of Private Prisons” “The Poverty of Culture” (2014) by Paul (2017) – Podcast, 5 on 45 Heideman, Jonah Birch in Jacobin Magazine “To Prison for Poverty” (2015) – Short Film, B rave New Films “Prisons and Class Warfare: An Interview with Ruth Wilson Gilmore” (2018) by “Who Benefits When a Private Prison Clément Petitjean on Verso Blog Comes to Town?” (2011) – Podcast, NPR “Prisons of Poverty: Uncovering the Pre-Incarceration Incomes of the ARTICLES, ESSAYS, & REPORTS Imprisoned” (2015) by Bernadette Rabuy, Daniel Kopf for Prison Policy “Abolishing Private Prisons Is a Start, But Initiative It Will Not End Mass Incarceration” (2020) by Darren Klimek in T ruthout “Profiting from Prisoners: How Prisons are Exploiting the Poor” (2014) by Joe “The Bad Kind Of Unionism” (2014) and Carter for the Action Institute "Why We Can’t Support Police Unions" (2015) by Shawn Gude in Jacobin “The Relationship Between Poverty and Mass Incarceration” by Center for “Both Red and Blue States Rely on Prison Community Change Labor” (2017) by Justin Miller in The American Prospect “Rethinking Working-Class Struggle through the Lens of the Carceral State: “The Economics of Private Prisons” Toward a Labor History of Inmates and (2016) by Megan Mumford for T he Guards” (2011) by Heather Ann Hamilton Project Thompson in L abor in the Carceral State

“How It Became a Crime to be Poor in “Some Reflections on Prison Labor: Ruth America” (2017) by Peter Edelman in The Wilson Gilmore with James Kilgore” Guardian (2019) by Ruth Wilson Gilmore and James Kilgore in T he Brooklyn Rail “How Prison Can Cost You ‘A Pound of Flesh’” (2017) by Julie Garner in “We Starved but We Shared” (2020) by University of Washington Magazine Sophia Siddiqui for the Institute of Race Relations “How Prisons Serve Capitalism” (2018) by Dan Berger in P ublic Books “What Is Holding Back the Formation of a Global Prison Abolitionist Movement to “On the Business of Incarceration” Fight COVID-19 and Capitalism?” (2020) (2019) by Craig Gilmore in Commune by Frieda Afary And Lara Al-Kateb in Magazine SpectreJournal.com

13 “Who Benefits When a Private Prison Comes to Town?” (2011) in NPR

“Who Pays? The True Cost of Incarceration on Families” (2015) by the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights

14 Gender, Queerness, & Carceral Feminism

BOOKS Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (2009) by Victoria Against Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Law Mere Inclusion (2014) edited by Ryan Conrad Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (2012) by Victoria All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Law Feminist Fight to End Violence (2019) by Emily L. Thuma Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers’ Rights (2020) by Juno Mac, Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, Molly Smith and America’s Prison Nation (2012) by Beth E. Richie The War on Sex (2017) edited by David M. Halperin, Trevor Hoppe Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex (2015) edited by Eric A. Stanley, Nat Smith FILMS, PODCASTS, & VIDEOS

Feminist Accountability: Disrupting “Advocates Say Cyntoia Brown's Case Is Violence and Transforming Power (2018) Part of the 'Sexual Abuse-To-Prison' by Ann Russo Pipeline” (2017) – Podcast, NPR

The Feminist and The Sex Offender: “Angela Davis on Feminism and Prison Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Abolition” (2017) – Video Violence (2020) by Judith Levine, Erica R. Meiners The Feminist on Cellblock Y (2018) – Movie Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of The Grey Area: Feminism Behind Bars Color ( 2017) by Andrea J. Ritchie (2012) – Movie

The Invisible Woman: Gender, Crime, and “’Just Paint the Walls Pink’: Gender, Justice ( 2006) by Joanne Belknap Prison and Carceral Feminism” (2018) – Podcast, The Lockdown Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States (2012) “Mariame Kaba on Moving Past by Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, & Punishment” (2020) – Podcast, For the Kay Whitlock Wild

15 “No One Is Disposable: Everyday “From Carceral Feminism to Practices of Prison Abolition” (2014) – Transformative Justice: Women-Of-Color Video Series, Dean Spade & Reina Feminism and Alternatives to Gossett Incarceration” (2018) by Mimi Kim in Journal of Ethnic & Cultural Diversity in “Richie Reseda on Dismantling Social Work Patriarchy” (2019) – Podcast, F or the Wild “From Margin to Center: Sex Work Decriminalization Is a Racial Justice “So after we abolish prisons and Issue” by Jasmine Sankofa policing...then what?: A Black Feminist Dialogue” (2020) – Video “How Anti-Violence Activism Taught Me to Become a Prison Abolitionist” (2014) “The Struggle for Trans Liberation: A by Beth Richie for F eministWire.org Conversation with CeCe McDonald” (2014) – Video, We Are Many “How Can We Reconcile Prison Abolition With #MeToo?” (2018) by Victoria Law “Vikki Law: Resisting Gender Violence Without Cops or Prisons” (2011) – Video “I Don’t Want My Rapists to Go to Prison” (2020) by Lydia Caradonna

ARTICLES, ESSAYS, & REPORTS “I Was Sexually Assaulted. And I Believe Incarcerating Rapists Doesn’t Help “Advocates Say Cyntoia Brown's Case Is Victims Like Me” (2019) by Stefanie Part of the 'Sexual Abuse-To-Prison' Mundhenk Harrelson in T he Appeal Pipeline” (2017) by Michel Martin in NPR “Locking People Up Doesn’t Make Us “Against Carceral Feminism” (2014) by Safer, Abuse Survivor Says” (2019) by Victoria Law for Jacobin James Kilgore in Truthout

“Anti-Online Trafficking Bills Advance In “Navigating Justice for Sexual Abuse Congress, Despite Opposition From Survivors, When You’re A Prison Survivors Themselves” (2018) by Melissa Abolitionist and A Survivor” (2017) by Gira Grant in T he Appeal Joshua Briond for Afropunk.com

“Can State Laws Provide Justice for “No Selves to Defend: Poems About Survivors of Violence Who Are Criminalization and Violence Against Incarcerated?” (2018) by Gail T. Smith Women” (2014)

“Criminalizing Survival” (2018) from “Queering Prison Abolition, Now?” Survived and Punished (2012) by Eric A. Stanley, Dean Spade, & Queer (In)Justice for A merican Quarterly

16 “ The Sentencing of Larry Nassar Was Not ‘Transformative Justice.’ Here’s Why” (2018) Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba for T he Appeal

“Statement on Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex” (2008) by Critical Resistance and INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

“Survived and Punished: Analysis and Vision” (2015) from Survived and Punished, founded by Mariame Kaba

“Surviving Rape as a Prison Abolitionist” (2020) by Miriam Perez-Putnam

“The Work in Sex Work” (2017) by Hennessy Williams in J acobin

17 Disability Justice

BOOKS The Insanity Offense: How America's Failure to Treat the Seriously Mentally Ill Addressing Ableism: Philosophical Endangers Its Citizens (2012) by E. Fuller Questions via Disability Studies (2017) by Torrey Jennifer Scuro, with Devonya N. Havis & Lydia X. Z. Brown Out of the Shadows: Confronting America's Mental Illness Crisis (1997) by Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice Carl C. Bell (2018) by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha FILMS, PODCASTS, & VIDEOS Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in “Ableism Crimes” (2019) – Podcast, Progressive America ( 1980) by Seymour Wine and Crimes Lipset “Beyond ‘Criminal Justice Reform’: Decarcerating Disability: Conversations on Police and Prison Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition” (2016) – Video, New York Abolition ( 2020) by Liat Ben-Moshe University School of Law

Disability, Criminal Justice and Law: “Building Abolition Conference 2019 - Reconsidering Court Diversion ( 2020) by Liat Ben-Moshe” (2019) – Video Linda Steele “Carceral Ableism and Disability Justice” Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment (2018) – Podcast, Rustbelt Abolition and Disability in the United States and Radio Canada (2014) edited by Liat Ben-Moshe, Chris Chapman, and Allison “Disability & School-to-Prison Pipeline” C. Carey (2019) – Podcast, THINK+change

The Discovery of the Asylum: Social “Experiences of People with Intellectual Order and Disorder in the New Republic Disabilities in Prison: In Conversation (2017) by David J. Rothman with Kathy Ellem” (2012) – Podcast, Podsocs: Podcasts for Social Workers From Asylum to Prison: Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of “Ep. 41: Deaf in Prison” (2018) – Mass Incarceration after 1945 ( 2018) by Podcast, Disability Visibility Project Ann E. Parsons (In)Accessible – Podcast, NPR

18 “Inmates with Mental Illness Tell Their “Disabled Behind Bars” (2016) by Stories” (2015) – Video, A VID Prison Rebecca Vallas for Center for American Project Progress

“Institutionalized: Mental Health Behind “Disabled Prisoners Decry Treatment in Bars” (2015) – Video, VICE News New York’s Prison System” (2019) by Keri Blakinger in The Appeal “On the Outs: Reentry for Inmates with Disabilities” (2016) – Video, AVID Prison “Focus on Mental Illness to Reduce Mass Project Incarceration” from Treatment Advocacy Center “Why Is Disability Hate Crime so Underreported?” (2020) – Podcast, T he “Formerly Incarcerated Disability Voices” JD Dragon Disability Rights Podcast (2019) from Access Living in Access to Justice: A Cross-Disability Perspective on Reducing Jail Incarceration ARTICLES, ESSAYS, & REPORTS “The Law Won’t Get Us Freedom, but “The Autistic, Non-Binary, Queer, Law Disability Justice Makes Us Better Student Fighting for Disability Justice” Lawyers, Better Advocates, and Better (2018) by Molly Callahan for N ews @ Humans” (2018) by Lydia X. Z. Brown for Northwestern the P SJD Blog

“Deviancy, Dependency, and Disability: “Letter from Lydia X. Z. Brown” by Lydia The Forgotten History of Eugenics and X. Z. Brown for Letters to the Revolution Mass Incarceration” (2018) by Laura I. Appleman in D uke Law Journal “More Mentally Ill Persons Are in Jails and Prisons Than Hospitals: A Survey of “Dignifying Madness: Rethinking the States” (2010) from Treatment Commitment Law in an Age of Mass Advocacy Center Incarceration” (2015) by Jonathan Simon, Stephen A. Rosenbaum “Nearly Half of All Women in Jail Are Disabled” (2016) by Rebecca Vallas in “A Disability Justice Response from SURJ The Nation to Covid-19” (2020) by Showing Up for Racial Justice on M edium.com “People with Intellectual Disabilities in the Criminal Justice System: Victims & “Disability Watchdog Sues State for Suspects” by Leigh Ann Davis for The COVID-19 Mitigation in Prisons and Arc Jails” (2020) by Jodi Hausen in Montana Free Press “Police, Courts, Jails, and Prisons All Fail Disabled People” (2017) by Elliott Oberholtzer for P rison Policy Initiative

“Prisoners With Physical Disabilities Are Forgotten And Neglected in America” (2017) by Jamelia Morgan for T he ACLU National Prison Project

“Treatment Denied: The Mental Health Crisis in Federal Prisons” (2018) by Christie Thompson, Taylor Elizabeth Elridge for T he Marshall Project

20 Crimmigration & Abolishing ICE

BOOKS Migrating to Prison: America’s Obsession Abolish Ice ( 2019) by Natascha Elena with Locking Up Immigrants (2019) by Uhlmann César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández

American Gulag: Inside U.S. Immigration No Justice in the Shadows: How America Prisons (2005) by Mark Dow Criminalizes Immigrants (2020) by Alina Das Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the The Rising Tide of Color: Against White Twenty-First Century ( 2020) A. Naomi World-Supremacy (2011) by Theodore Paik Lothrop Stoddard

Beyond Walls and Cages: Prisons, Undocumented: How Immigration Borders, and Global Crisis (2012) edited Became Illegal (2014) by Aviva Chomsky by Jenna M. Loyd, Matt Mitchelson, & Andrew Burridge Undoing Border Imperialism (2013) by Harsha Walia Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance (2019) by Robert T. FILMS, PODCASTS, & VIDEOS Chase “Abolish ICE?” – Podcast, Immigration Captivity Beyond Prisons: Criminalization Nation Experiences of Latina (Im)migrants (2016) by Martha D. Escobar “Abolish ICE | May 23, 2018 Act 2 | Full Frontal on TBS” -- Video, Full Frontal Deportation: The Origins of U.S. Policy with Samantha Bee (2017) by Torrie Hester “A Day with ICE in the So-Called Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles ‘Sanctuary City’” – Video, C NN and the Politics of Noncitizenship (2014) by Amalia Pallares “Decolonization Means Prison Abolition” -- Video, Decolonize PDX Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America (2014) “Fighting a Dehumanizing U.S. Mae M. Ngai Immigration System, with Lee Gelernt” – Podcast, Why Is This Happening? with Migra!: A History of the U.S. Border Chris Hayes Patrol (2010) by Kelly Lytle Hernandez

21 Deportation Nation – Film, The Atlantic “Amnesty or Abolition? Felons, Illegals, and the Case for an Abolitionist “ICE Capades” – Podcast, This American Movement” (2011) by Kelly Lyttle Life Hernández

“ICE” – Podcast, C ivics 101 “Grassroots Activists: ‘Abolish ICE’ Means Disband, Not Reform the Agency” “If We're Going To Abolish ICE, Let's Also (2018) by Mike Ludwig in Truthout Get Rid Of.....” – Podcast, Illegal Immigration w/ Our United Resource “‘Everybody Was Sick’: Inside an ICE PAC Detention Center” (2020) by Tammy La Gorce in the N ew York Times “Immigration 101: Enforcement by the Numbers” – Video, KCETOnline “The ICE Abolition Movement Explained” (2018) by Rachel Levinson-Waldman “Op-Ed: Why We Need to Abolish ICE” – Video, NowThis News “ICE Deserves to be Abolished” (2018) by Molly Roberts for T he Washington Post “Who Profits from Immigration Enforcement?” – Video, CNBC “Immigration Detention is Part of Mass Incarceration: The Case for Abolishing ICE and Everything Else” (2019) by Cora ARTICLES, ESSAYS, & REPORTS Currier

“5 Reasons Why Activists Are Calling for “Mapping the Shadow Carceral State: the Abolition of ICE” (2018) by Natascha Toward an Institutionally Capacious Uhlmann in Teen Vogue Approach to Punishment” (2012) by Katherine Beckett, Naomi Murakawa in “The 'Abolish ICE' Movement Is Growing. Theoretical Criminology Here's Why the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency Was “No One Really Knows What ICE Is Created” (2018) by Olivia B. Waxman in Supposed to Be. Politicians Love That” TIME Magazine (2018) by Heather Timmons

“Abolish Immigrant Prisons” (2019) by “OK, Abolish ICE. What Then?” (2018) by César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández Matt Ford in T he New Republic

“Abolishing ICE Is the Radical Adea “Our System of Mass Incarceration: America Needs to be Talking About” Seeing the Parallels between Black (2018) by Will Bunch in The Philadelphia Americans and Immigrants” (2019) by Inquirer José Arnulfo Cabrera for Emerging Justice Seekers

22 “The Real Alternatives to Detention” (2019) from Justice for Immigrants

“The U.S. Criminal-Immigration Convergence and its Possible Undoing” (2012) by Allegra M. McLeod

“Who is Profiting from Incarcerating Immigrant Families?” (2018) by Molly Gott, Derek Seidman, & Gin Armstrong in Eyes on the Ties

“Who Profits from ‘Crimmigration’? Not America or its Ideals” (2019) by Naomi Ishisaka

23 Reimagining Justice & Abolition Organizing

BOOKS Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy (2019) by Danielle Sered and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex (2010) by CR-10 Publications Collective FILMS, PODCASTS, & VIDEOS

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories “Building Accountable Communities” from the Transformative Justice (2018) -- Video, Barnard Center for Movement ( 2020) edited by Ejeris Dixon, Research on Women Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha “COVID-19, Decarceration, and Captive Nation: Dan Berger on Black Abolition” (2020) -- Video, Haymarket Prison Organizing and Mass Books w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore Incarceration (2015) by Dan Berger “How Do We Use Restorative Justice to Cheap on Crime: Recession-Era Politics Transform a Culture of Sexual Harm?” and the Transformation of American (2018) -- Video, Zehr Institute for Punishment (2015) by Hadar Aviram Restorative Justice

The Force of Nonviolence (2020) by “Mia Mingus of the Bay Area Judith Butler Transformative Justice Collective” (2018) -- Podcast, W e Rise The New Abolitionists: (Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison “Moving at the Speed of Trust: Disability Writings (2005) by Joy James Justice and Transformative Justice” (2020) -- Video, Barnard Center for The Revolution Starts at Home: Research on Women Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities ( 2016) edited by “A New Story of Justice: Nonviolence Ching-In Chen, Jai Dulani, & Leah and Restorative Justice” (2018) -- Video, Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha MettaCenter

Stories of Transformative Justice ( 2000) “On the Road with Abolition: Assessing by Ruth Morris Our Steps Along the Way” (2020) -- Video, Critical Resistance & Haymarket Transformative Justice: Remedying Books Human Rights Violations Beyond Transition ( 2018) by Matthew Evans “Restorative Justice: Why Do We Need It?” (2016) -- Video, B rave New Films

“Transformative Justice and Community “Dis-Organizing Prisons” (2019) by Steve Accountability” (2017) -- Video, Wilson for D reaming Freedom Practicing CALCASA Abolition

“Transformative Justice with Jacob “How to Give a Good Apology Part 1: The Dunne” (2017) -- Video, T EDx Talks Four Parts of Accountability” & “ How to Give a Good Apology Part 2: The “Transforming Harm: Experiments in Apology — The What and the How” Accountability” (2019) -- Video, B arnard (2019) by Mia Mingus in Leaving Center for Research on Women Evidence

“What is Transformative Justice?” (2020) “My Comrades’ Thoughts on Black Lives -- Video, Barnard Center for Research on Matter: A Collection of Essays and Women Poems by Incarcerated Activists” (2020) by United Black Family Editorial ARTICLES, ESSAYS, & REPORTS Collective

“2018 Prison Strike Demands” from the “An Open Letter to the Former Incarcerated Workers Organizing Commune Mag Editor Who Raped Me” Committee (2020) by Leila Raven in Medium

“Beautiful, Difficult, Powerful: Ending “Organizing for Community Sexual Assault Through Transformative Accountability” from INCITE! Women of Justice” ( 2011) from the C hrysalis Color Against Violence Collective “Philly Stands Up: Inside the Politics and “Community Accountability: Emerging Poetics of Transformative Justice and Movements to Transform Violence” Community Accountability in Sexual (2012) from Social Justice: A Journal of Assault Situations” (2011) by E.L. Kelly in Crime, Conflict & World Order Mada

“C ommunity Response and “Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet” Accountability’ & ‘Transformation of (2016) by Bay Area Transformative Community and Social Conditions that Justice Collective Create and Perpetuate Violence” (2017) from GenerationFive in Ending Child “Punitive, Restorative, and Sexual Abuse: A Transformative Justice Transformative Justice” (2013) by the Handbook Aorta Collective

“Creative Intervention Toolkit: A Practical “Still Choosing to Leap: Building Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence” Alternatives” (2015) by Mia Mingus in (2012) from Creative Interventions Leaving Evidence

“Taking Risks: Implementing Grassroots Community Accountability Strategies” (2008) by Communities Against Rape and Abuse (CARA) on pages 64-79 of The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Partner Abuse in Activist Communities

“Taking the First Step: Suggestions to People Called Out for Abusive Behavior” by Wispy Cockles

“Think. Rethink. Accountable Communities.” by Connie Burk

“Toward Transformative Justice” (2007) by Generation Five

“Transformative Justice and Community Accountability” (2014) by the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective

“Transformative Justice” (2012) by Mariame Kaba for Prison Culture Blog

“What Does It Feel Like When Change Finally Comes: Male Supremacy, Accountability and Transformative Justice” (2011) by Gaurav Jashani, RJ Maccani, Alan Greig in The Challenging Male Supremacy Project

26 Organizations & Coalitions to Support

ALBANY, NY

The Albany Political Prisoner Support Committee The Albany Political Prisoner Support Committee works on campaigns for freedom for political prisoners in New York State; supports freedom for Pennsylvania Death Row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal; builds a movement for prison justice in New York; networks with other prison justice organizations; and spreads information about political prisoners and the prison justice movement.

Campaign to End the New Jim Crow - Upstate The Upstate Campaign to End the New Jim Crow initiated a petition for a Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation Commission to assess the impact of mass incarceration on communities of color. The point person is Alice Green at [email protected].

RAPP Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP works to end mass incarceration and promote racial justice through the release from prison of older and aging people and those serving long and life sentences.

ALBUQUERQUE, NM

ABQ Mutual Aid Fight For Our Lives is a diverse, youth-led organization that stands to uphold accountability among local and state leadership, promote strategic social change, and raise awareness about issues affecting New Mexican youth and their communities.

Millions for Prisoners New Mexico Millions for Prisoners of New Mexico seeks to unite activists, advocates, prisoners, ex-prisoners, their family and friends.

PAJOLA The Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice provides resources and space for organizations and individuals working on peace and justice issues to network with one another and share information. Through our programs and collaborations, we work locally to support regional and global justice.

27 ATLANTA, GA

Atlanta Solidarity Fund Atlanta Solidarity Fund provides support for people who are arrested at protests, or otherwise prosecuted for their movement involvement.

Bail Out Black Mamas Bail Out Black Mamas is a community bail fund specifically for incarcerated Black mothers awaiting trial.

Solutions Not Punishment Collective The Solutions Not Punishment Collaborative is a Black Trans and Queer led collaborative that builds the power of our people to wage and win campaigns that force systematic divestment from the prison industrial complex and investment in the services and supports us.

AUSTIN, TX

Austin Justice Coalition Austin Justice Coalition is a grassroots, activist-led organization addressing criminal, economic, and social justice at the local level.

Inside Books Inside Books is the only books-to-prisoners program in Texas.

BOSTON, MA

Black and Pink The Boston Chapter works toward prison abolition by providing court support, pen pal matching, mail processing, political education, and organizing around decarceration and harm reduction in Massachusetts.

Court Watch MA Court Watch MA is a community project with the goal of shifting the power dynamics in our courtrooms by exposing the decisions judges and prosecutors make about neighbors every day.

Young Abolitionists We are a collective of young people from Boston working together to end oppression and build power to control our future.

28 BUFFALO, NY

Buffalo NY Free Jalil Muntaqim Our group's mission is to support, highlight, and fight for the release of Black Panther Party Cointelpro political prisoner Jalil Muntaqim. We also pursue parole reform, prisoners' justice and fighting the school to prison pipeline. Unfortunately, Jalil passed away from COVID-19 in prison recently, but the organization is still working.

Buffalo Prison Abolition Reading Group The contact person is Theresa Warburton at B [email protected].

BURLINGTON, VA

Vermont Freedom Bail Fund We are a tax-deductible fund available to bail out immigrants living in Vermont held on immigration charges.

WFJI We support & advocate for women, girls, transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming people impacted by systems of oppression.

CHICAGO, IL

BYP100 BYP100 is a national, member-based organization of Black 18-35 year old activists and organizers, dedicated to creating justice and freedom for all Black people. We do this through building a network focused on transformative leadership development, direct action organizing, advocacy, and political education using a Black queer feminist lens.

Chicago Community Bond Fund Chicago Community Bond Fund (CCBF) pays bond for people charged with crimes in Cook County, Illinois. CCBF is part of the Coalition to End Money Bond.

Chicago Torture Justice Center The Chicago Torture Justice Center seeks to address the traumas of police violence and institutionalized racism through access to healing and wellness services, trauma-informed resources, and community connection.

TJLP

29 TJLP is a group of radical activists, social workers, and organizers who provide support, advocacy, and free, holistic advocacy and criminal legal services to poor and street-based transgender people in Illinois.

We Charge Genocide We Charge Genocide is a grassroots, inter-generational effort to center the voices and experiences of the young people most targeted by police violence in Chicago.

CLEVELAND, OH

Keith LeMar Keith is a wrongfully accused death row prisoner and author of Condemned. He needs public support to fight for his life — Nov 16, 2023 is his execution date — and to hold the State of Ohio accountable.

Prison Solidarity The Internet site Prisonersolidarity.org serves as a catalyst for communication between prisoners and people on "the outside."

DENVER, CO

Black and Pink Black and Pink works towards prison abolition through creative collaborations with inside members, pen pal matching, mail processing, political education, and organizing with community partners in advocacy campaigns.

DABC The mission of the Denver Anarchist Black Cross is to contribute to the support of political prisoners and defense of local and global social movements, while working for liberation from colonial domination, and strengthening autonomy, mutual aid, and self-determination.

Denver TJ Collective Denver TJ Collective is building a practice of supporting community-centered solutions to violence within our queer/trans* communities, families, and organizations.

DURHAM, NC

Amplify Voices

30 Inside-Outside Alliance is a group of people trying to support the struggles of those inside (or formerly inside) Durham County jail, and their families and friends.

SpiritHouse SpiritHouse uses culture, art and media to support the empowerment and transformation of communities most impacted by poverty, racism, gender inequity, criminalization and mass incarceration; through grassroots programs, cultural organizing and community collaborations.

FAYETTEVILLE, AK

Arkansas Abolish Founded in 1977, the Arkansas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (ACADP) is a non-partisan, non-sectarian coalition of religious and civic organization and concerned citizens working together to end capital punishment in Arkansas.

JERSEY CITY, NJ

Guazabara Insights Guazabara Insights, LLC is a health and educational services provider whose mission is to raise social consciousness and uplift our communities.

Jersey City Anti-Violence Coalition Movement Jersey City Anti-Violence Coalition Movement works to address the needs of public safety through various programs and initiatives that focus on preventing violence. We are devoted to empowering residents and building a peaceful community, which improves the quality of life for everyone.

KINGSTON, NY

Citizen Action of NY Citizen Action of New York is a grassroots membership organization taking on big issues that are at the center of transforming society.

End the New Jim Crow Action Network-Kingston The End the New Jim Crow Action Network! (ENJAN, pronounced “engine”) is a group of Hudson Valley residents working locally to end the era of mass incarceration in this country.

Rise Up Kingston

31 Rise Up Kingston is a grassroots organization led by those experiencing racism, classism, and gender oppression on a daily basis. We organize to win, with our collective power, a Kingston economy that meets all of our social and environmental needs.

LOS ANGELES, CA

Critical Resistance Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.

JusticeLA In partnership with grassroots organizations, advocates, directly impacted communities, and stakeholders, we work to reduce the footprint of incarceration by stopping jail expansion and reclaiming, reimagining and reinvesting dollars away from incarceration and into community-based systems of care.

Youth Justice Coalition The Youth Justice Coalition (YJC) is working to build a youth, family, and formerly and currently incarcerated people’s movement to challenge America’s addiction to incarceration and race, gender and class discrimination in Los Angeles County’s, California’s and the nation’s juvenile and criminal injustice systems.

MIAMI, FL

Dream Defenders Today, the Dream Defenders is organizing Black and Brown youth to build power in our communities to advance a new vision we have for the state.

PowerU We are organizing and developing the leadership of Black and Brown youth and Black women in South Florida so that they may help lead the struggle to liberate all oppressed people.

NEW YORK, NY

Black and Pink Black and Pink works to liberate people impacted by the criminal punishment system, particularly those who identify as LGBTQ+ and/or are living with HIV/AIDS through pen pal matching, mail processing, and by providing political education through workshops.

Books Through Bars Books Through Bars volunteers meet in Brooklyn to match requests people in prison have sent us in the mail to the books on our shelves. We mail book packages to individuals rather than prison libraries.

Brooklyn Community Bail Fund The Brooklyn Community Bail Fund (BCBF) is committed to challenging the racism, inequality, and injustice of a criminal legal system and immigration and deportation regime that disproportionately target and harm low-income communities of color. Our work to dismantle the deeply intertwined criminal legal and immigration systems includes continued advocacy to influence policy locally and nationally, and paying bond to free immigrants detained by ICE.

Brooklyn Movement Center Brooklyn Movement Center (BMC) is a Black-led, membership-based organization of primarily low-to-moderate income Central Brooklyn residents. We build power and pursue self-determination in Bedford-Stuyvesant & Crown Heights by nurturing local leadership, waging campaigns and winning concrete improvements in people’s lives.

Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement The common goal of Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement is sweeping reform of New York’s use of solitary confinement and other forms of extreme isolation in state prisons and local jails.

Center for Community Alternatives Center for Community Alternatives’ mission is to promote reintegrative justice and a reduced reliance on incarceration through advocacy, services and public policy development in pursuit of civil and human rights.

Court Watch NYC Court Watch NYC (CWNYC) is a project of the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, VOCAL-NY and 5 Boro Defenders. CWNYC harnesses the power of New Yorkers to organize for transformative change toward abolition. We watch court proceedings, shift power in the courtroom, report what we see, and hold court actors accountable to ending the injustices in the criminal legal system that target Black, brown, indigenous, immigrant/migrant, queer and TGNC communities.

Critical Resistance Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.

RAPP Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) works to end mass incarceration and promote racial justice through the release from prison of older and aging people and those serving long and life sentences.

Survived and Punished Survived & Punished is a prison abolition organization whose work specifically focuses on criminalized survivors to raise awareness about the integrated relationship between systems of punishment and the pervasiveness of gender violence.

VOCAL-NY Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY) is a statewide grassroots membership organization that builds power among low-income people affected by HIV/AIDS, the drug war, mass incarceration, and homelessness in order to create healthy and just communities. We accomplish this through community organizing, leadership development, advocacy, direct services, participatory research and direct action.

OAKLAND, CA

Anti Police-Terror Project The Anti Police-Terror Project is a Black-led, multi-racial, intergenerational coalition that seeks to build a replicable and sustainable model to eradicate police terror in communities of color.

California Prison Focus California Prison Focus is a grassroots organization that works to abolish the California prison system in its present condition, with a focus on ending long-term solitary confinement.

Community Ready Corps Community Ready Corps’ prime objective iis to build and/or contribute to self-determination in disenfranchised communities.

Critical Resistance Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex by challenging the belief that caging and controlling people makes us safe.

Essie Justice Group Essie Justice Group is a nonprofit organization of women with incarcerated loved ones taking on the rampant injustices created by mass incarceration.

Prison Activist Resource Center PARC is a prison abolitionist group based in Oakland, California committed to exposing and challenging the institutionalized racism, sexism, ableism, heterosexism, and classism of the Prison Industrial Complex.

ORLANDO, FL

Community Bail Fund The Community Bail Fund (CBF), a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization (Application Pending), is dedicated to ending the widespread incarceration of individuals who have been arrested for non-violent offenses but lack the financial means to pay bail and return home to their families while awaiting their court date.

Dream Defenders Today, the Dream Defenders is organizing Black and Brown youth to build power in our communities to advance a new vision we have for the state.

PHILADELPHIA, PA

Books Through Bars Books Through Bars believes systemic social, educational, and economic inequality leads to relentless cycles of crime and mass incarceration. Our work aims to reverse the devastating effects that injustice and incarceration has on individuals, families and communities.

Decarcerate PA Decarcerate PA is a grassroots campaign working to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania. We demand that PA stop building prisons, reduce the prison population, and reinvest money in our communities.

Human Rights Coalition The Human Rights Coalition (HRC) is a grassroots non-profit group of predominately prisoners’ families, prisoners, ex-offenders and supporters.

Philly Stands Up

35 Philly Stands Up is small collective of individuals working in Philadelphia to confront sexual assault in our various communities using a transformative justice framework.

PHOENIX, AZ

AZ Prison Watch The AZ Prison Watch has retired, but the website is still a great resource.

Mass Liberation AZ Mass Liberation Arizona and Decarcerate Arizona are building power to end mass incarceration and divest from the carceral system in Arizona.

PITTSBURGH, PA

The Abolitionist Law Center The Abolitionist Law Center is a public interest law firm inspired by the struggle of political and politicized prisoners, and organized for the purpose of abolishing class and race based mass incarceration in the United States.

Book ‘Em Book‘Em is a non-profit organization based in Pittsburgh that sends reading and educational materials to prisoners across Pennsylvania. Our mission is to improve the quality of life for people incarcerated in Pennsylvania by providing free access to educational materials, books and resources.

Let's Get Free Let’s Get Free: The Women and Trans Prisoner Defense Committee is a group who educates and organizes around issues of prison injustice, addressing policies, contributing factors and collateral consequences of mass incarceration, as well as envisioning new systems of transformative justice and healing.

Decarceate PA Decarcerate PA is a grassroots campaign working to end mass incarceration in Pennsylvania. We demand that PA stop building prisons, reduce the prison population, and reinvest money in our communities.

PROVIDENCE, RI

Black and Pink

36 Black and Pink works towards prison abolition through pen pal matching, mail processing, and by providing political education through workshops.

Direct Action for Rights and Equality Behind the Walls is DARE’s prison abolition committee, which unites people inside the prison with their friends, families, community members, and former inmates on the outside.

RICHMOND, VA

Virginia Prison Justice Network Organizations within the Virginia Prison Justice Network commit to find common ground by working together to build a statewide movement to end mass incarceration.

SAN DIEGO, CA

Black and Pink The San Diego chapter of Black and Pink, an organization supporting LGBTQ prisoners impacted by the prison industrial complex, works towards prison abolition through pen pal matching, mail processing, and by providing political education through workshops.

Project Rebound Project Rebound works to support the formerly incarcerated on their journey through successful reintegration in a college setting.

United Against Police Terror UAPTSD works for systemic change in law enforcement agencies and advocating for victims of excessive force or police misconduct.

SAN JOSE, CA

Amend the 13th The “Amend the 13th: Abolish “Legal” Slavery in Amerika Movement” is an all-inclusive, coalition-based national campaign and community-based organizing effort which is determined to remove the “legal” and social basis for the dehumanization of those subject to the judicial machinery of the United States – and finally abolish slavery in Amerika once and for all.

California Prison Focus

37 California Prison Focus is a grassroots organization that works to abolish the California prison system in its present condition, with a focus on ending long-term solitary confinement. We are committed to honoring the voices and strategies of prisoners and join their efforts to foster solidarity and empowerment. We believe in public education and direct action to achieve these goals.

People Acting in Community Together PACT‘s mission is to empower everyday people to create a more healthy and just society by winning extraordinary victories for the community - not by speaking for them, but by teaching people how to speak up and take action in the public arena through grassroots organizing. Launched the L IVE FREE campaign.

SEATTLE, WA

Freedom Project WA The Freedom Project’s mission is to support healing connection and restorative communities both inside and outside prison through the strategies of Nonviolent Communication, mindfulness, racial equity and anti-oppression.

Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee of Seattle The Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC), is a prisoner-led section of the Industrial Workers of the World. IWOC struggles to end prison slavery along with allies and supporters on the outside.

Interaction Transition Interaction Transition (I/T) is a private non-profit agency in Seattle, Washington dedicated to assisting formerly incarcerated individuals in the re-entry process. I/T provides support to individuals as they transition from prison or jail to community life, and assistance in meeting critical basic needs such as employment and social support.

Keeping the Faith: The Prison Project Keeping the Faith–The Prison Project serves women in Washington State Prisons through dance, expository writing, visual art and performance.

Washington Can Washington Can’s mission is to achieve racial, gender, economic, and social equity in order to establish a democratic society characterized by justice and fairness, with respect for diversity, and a decent quality of life for all those who reside in Washington.

SYRACUSE, NY

WEST PALM BEACH, FL

Palm Beach County NOW Palm Beach County NOW is a chapter of the National Organization of Women. PBC NOW brings a well-rounded expertise on women’s issues, including equal rights issues for the LGBT community, family court and education issues, reproductive rights, human trafficking and more.

Safety and Justice Challenge The Safety and Justice Challenge is providing support to local leaders from across the country who are determined to tackle one of the greatest drivers of over-incarceration in America—the misuse and overuse of jails.