Prison abolition movements

Here are entered works discussing collectively organizations and movements whose stated purpose is to reduce or eliminate prisons.

found: Work cat: When the prisoners ran Walpole, ©2008:title page (the movement for prison abolition) page 10 (Prisoners, their families, and those from the communities where crime most often occurs know that one deep root of crime is the prison itself. If we are to cut out this root, prisons must ultimately be closed)

found: Abolition now!, ©2008:page xi (The conference Critical Resistance: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex brought people together to examine the concept of the prison industrial complex and explore the potential of abolishing it) page 1 (anti-prison movement)

found: What is prison abolition?, via The Nation WWW site, Oct. 26, 2020(For a hundred years a variety of community groups and prisoner activists have been working not only to reform the prison-industrial complex, but to dismantle it entirely. Abolitionists believe that incarceration, in any form, harms society more than it helps. The prison-abolition movement is a loose collection of people and groups who, in many different ways, are calling for deep, structural reforms to how we handle and even think about crime in our country. There are de facto figureheads (such as Angela Davis and Ruth Wilson Gilmore, the most famous contemporary abolitionists) and organizations (such as Critical Resistance, INCITE!, the Movement for Black Lives, the National Lawyers Guild, and Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee--all of which, if not explicitly abolitionist, at least engage in abolitionist ethics), and there are converging or at least overlapping political ideologies (anarchist, socialist, libertarian), but there is no structured organizing group or coalition)

Here are entered works discussing collectively organizations and movements whose stated purpose is to reduce or eliminate prisons.