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  1. Prison abolition movement in the United States

    The prison abolition movement is a network of groups and activists that seek to reduce or eliminate prisons and the prison system, and replace them with systems of rehabilitation and education that do not focus on punishment and government institutionalization. The prison abolitionist movement is distinct from conventional prison reform, which is intended to improve conditions inside prisons. Supporters of prison abolitionism are a diverse group with differing ideas as to exactly how prisons should be abolished, and what, if anything, should replace them. Some supporters of decarceration and prison abolition also work to end solitary confinement, the death penalty, and the construction of new prisons through non-reformist reforms. Others support books-to-prisoner projects and defend prisoners' right to access information and library services. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    The prison abolition movement is a network of groups and activists that seek to reduce or eliminate prisons and the prison system, and replace them with systems of rehabilitation and education that do not focus on punishment and government institutionalization. [1] The prison abolitionist movement is distinct from conventional prison reform, which is intended to improve conditions inside prisons.
  3. blackpast.org

    The Prison Abolition Movement is a social campaign to eliminate prisons. The movement began in the 1980s following the War on Drugs whose consequence was to increase the U.S. prison population from 500,000 in 1980 to 1.3 million in 1990 and 2 million in 2000. The leaders of this movement felt that too many non-violent people were being sent to prison, that the majority of the people being ...
  4. themarshallproject.org

    Prison abolition has decades of antecedents, led by once-fringe figures like Angela Davis, the 1960s communist firebrand, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore, the subject in April of a sympathetic profile in the New York Times Magazine. More recently abolition has been embraced by younger Americans who grew up after violent crime peaked in the early 1990s ...
  5. news.harvard.edu

    Prison abolition is a complex and thorny issue, so the members of the Cabot Prison Abolition Book Club, led by history graduate student DeAnza Cook, take it on one volume at a time. "Understanding abolition is a journey," said Cook, a doctoral candidate and Cabot House tutor who founded the club. "Journeying together takes patience.
  6. prisonpolicy.org

    Abolition is a long range goal; an ideal. The eradication of any oppressive system is not an easy task. But it is realizable, like the abolition of slavery or any liberation, so long as there is the will to engage in the struggle. ... Perspective 6: Abolitionists realize that the empowerment of prisoners and ex-prisoners is crucial to prison ...
  7. oxfordre.com

    Prison abolition as an American movement, strategy, and theory has existed since the establishment of prison as the primary mode of punishment. In many of its forms, it is an extension of abolition movements dating back to the inception of slavery. The long-term goal of prison abolition is for all people to live in a safe, liberated, and free ...
  8. prisonpolicy.org

    Preface . Acknowledgements . Prolog . The power of words. Nine perspectives for prison abolitionists . 1. Time to begin . Voices of abolition • Advocates of swift and massive change • Constitutionalists • Advocates of moratorium • Peace advocates • Developing an ideology • Economic wsocial justice • Who decides?

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