Caste
Introductory Texts
- Why It's Time to Dump Gandhi by Dalit Diva
- Hindu Facism: An All American Threat by Sameena Mustafa and Arti Walker-Peddakotla
Articles
Caste and Abolition
- Tell Me More: Talking Prison Reform and Alternative Forms of Justice With Saumya Dadoo by Aditi Murti
- Carceral Feminism and Ideas of Justice In India by Sanjukta Bose
- South Asians for Abolition: Beyond Gilded Cages by Mon M.
- Imagining India Without Prisons by
Legal
- Casteism in Prisons of India: A 'Violent' Ecosystem by Priyam Mittal
- ‘Castration’ as a hegemonic form of punishment: A Legal History Point of View by Sophy Joseph
Human Rights reports
- “Bound by Brotherhood": India’s Failure to End Killings in Police Custody by Human Rights Watch
- Hidden Apartheid: Caste Discrimination against India’s "Untouchables" by Human Rights Watch
- The “Anti-Nationals”: Arbitrary Detention and Torture of Terrorism Suspects in India by Human Rights Watch
Prison writing
- 13 Years: A Naxalite's Prison Diary by Ramchandra Singh
Colonialism
Introductory Texts
- Introducing Settler Colonial Studies by Lorenzo Veracini
- Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native by Patrick Wolfe
COVID-19
DECARCERATION
- The Case for Prison Abolition: Ruth Wilson Gilmore on COVID-19, Racial Capitalism & Decarceration by Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Democracy Now!
- Three Reasons Advocates Must Move Beyond Demanding Release for “Nonviolent Offenders” by Micah Herskind
- Covid-19 Letter by INQUEST/Women in Prison
- ‘The state will not save us, only we can save us’: a collective response to Covid-19 by Gal-Dem
- Covid-19 Lockdown – Policing the Police by Adam Elliott Cooper and the Monitoring Group
- The Lockdown: Arresting the Virus by Oonagh Ryder and Carl Cattermole
- What is holding back the formation of a global prison abolitionist movement to fight COVID-19 and capitalism? by Frieda Afary and Lara Al-Kateb
MUTUAL AID
- Mutual Aid Incorporated by Josie Sparrow
- What Mutual Aid Can Do During a Pandemic by Jia Tolentino
Disability Justice
Introductory Texts
- Brief Overview of Disability Justice by Mia Mingus
- Longmore Lecture on Ableism by Talila Lewis
- Carceral Ableism & Disability Justice by Dr. Liate Ben-Moshe and Leroy Moore
- Disability Justice In the Age of Mass Incarceration: Perspectives on Race, Disability, Law & Accountability by Talila Lewis
- In the Fight to Close Rikers, Don’t Forget Deaf and Disabled People by Talila Lewis
- Accountable Reporting on Disability, Race, & Police Violence by Leroy Moore, Jr., Talila Lewis, Lydia Brown
- Meditations on Natural Worlds, Disabled Bodies, and a politics of Cure by Eli Clare
Crip-of-Color Critique
- Reclaiming the Radical Politics of Self-Care: A Crip-of-Color Critique by Jina B. Kim and Sami Schalk
CARE
- We Don’t Need Cops to Become Social Workers: We Need Peer Support + Community Response Networks by Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu
BOOKS
- Decarcerating Disability by Liat Ben-Moshe
- Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
Environmental Justice
Introductory Texts
Articles
- Hidden Hazards:The Impacts of Climate Change on Incarcerated People in California State Prisons by Aishah Abdala, Abhilasha Bhola, Guadalupe Gutierrez, Eric Henderson & Maura O’Neill
- Planting Justice's Prison Abolition Work Starts at the Roots by Nastia Voynovskaya
Audio and Video
- Judi Bari: A Revolutionary Ecology report by Noelle Hanrahan at Prison Radio
History
History
STATEMENTS
- The Folsom Prisoners Manifesto of Demands by the incarcerated people of Folsom Prison
- The Combahee River Collective Statement by the Combahee River Collective
- We Charge Genocide by Chicago activists
- For a World Without Police by A World Without Police
SPEECHES
- Free All Black Liberation Fighters by Assata Shakur
- You Can Murder a Liberator, but You Can’t Murder Liberation by Fred Hampton
Books
- Blood in My Eye by George Jackson
- A Soldier's Story: Writings by a Revolutionary New Afrikan Anarchist by Kuwasi Balagoon
Immigration
DETENTION
- Amnesty or Abolition? by Kelly Lyte Hernandez
- Immigration Detention is Part of Mass Incarceration by Cora Currier
- Why Freedom for Immigrants believes in abolishing immigration detention by Freedom for Immigrants
BOOKS
- Border and Rule by Harsha Walia
- No One Is Illegal: Fighting Racism and State Violence at the U.S.-Mexico Border by Justin Akers Chacón and Mike Davis
- Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia and Andrea Smith
Indigenous Liberation
Introductory Texts
- Allowing the Ancestors to Speak: Radical Indigenism and New/Old Definitions of Identity from Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America by Eva Marie Garroutte
- Introduction: Gendered Geographies and Narrative Markings from Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations by Mishuana Goeman
Palestinian Liberation
- Zionist Colonialism is Palestine by Fayez A. Sayegh
Decolonization
- Decolonization is not a Metaphor by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
Books
- Red Nation Rising by Nick Estes (Kul Wicasa), Melanie K. Yazzie (Diné), Jennifer Nez Denetdale (Diné), David Correia, Radmilla Cody (Diné), and Brandon Benallie (Diné)
- From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai'i by Haunani Kay Trask
Marxism
Introductory Texts
Public Safety
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Racial Capitalism
RACIAL CAPITALISM
- Racial Capitalism by Global Social Theory
- Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill, The Rebellion Against Racial Capitalism, Historian Robin D.G. Kelley on Racial Capitalism and New Generation of Abolitionists by Robin D.G. Kelley
PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
- Democracy Now! The Left Remakes the World: Amna Akbar on Canceling Rent, Defunding the Police & Where We Go from Here by Amna Akbar
- Dangerous History: What the Story of Black Economic Cooperation Means for Us Today by Keane Bhatt
- Explainer: The Prison Industrial Complex and Modern Slavery by Ronnie Stephens
- Recognizing Racism in the Era of Neoliberalism by Angela Davis
- The Economy of Incarceration by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- The Societal Impact of the Prison Industrial Complex, or Incarceration for Fun and Profit—Mostly Profit by Alex Friedmann
BOOKS
- Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson
- Golden Gulag by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- Lockdown America by Christian Parenti
Reformism
REFORMIST REFORMS
- Liberals, Guns and the Roots of the U.S. Prison Explosion by Naomi Murakawa
- Police “Reforms” You Should Always Oppose by Mariame Kaba
- Chart of Policing Reforms vs Abolitionist Steps by Critical Resistance
- The Myth of Liberal Policing by Alex Vitale
NON-REFORMIST REFORMS
- What Abolitionists Do by Dan Berger, Mariame Kaba, and David Stein
- The Tension Between Abolition and Reform by Liat Ben-Moshe
- Abolition not Reformation by Sara Chitseko
- Don’t reform prisons, abolish them by Ruth Wilson Gilmore
BOOKS
- Prison By Any Other Name by Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law
Women's Liberation and Reproductive Justice
REPRODUCTIVE Justice
Introductory Texts
- Visioning New Futures for Reproductive Justice 2023 by SisterSong
Articles
- Prison Abolition Even For Elizabeth Holmes
- Abolition is Not a One Time Event: Prison Doulas as Catalysts by geunsaeng (olivia) ahn
- Reproductive Rights Behind Bars: Inside One of the Oldest Women’s Prisons in the U.S. by Marty Garbarini
Academic Articles and Issue Briefs
- Who Pays? The True Cost of Incarceration on Families by Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
- Reproductive Justice in the Prison System by If/When/How
- Advocating for Abolition in Health Law: A Theory and Praxis to Liberate Black Incarcerated Women by Hala Baradi
- Reproductive Justice Disrupted: Mass Incarceration as a Driver of Reproductive Oppression Reproductive Oppression by Chrystal M. Hayes, Carolyn Sufrin, and Jamila B. Perritt
- Blog Series on Reproductive Rights in Prison by Rachel Hart
Prison Writing
- “Literary Vandals”: American Women’s Prison Zines as Collective Autobiography by Olivia Wright
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The Prison Letters of CeCe McDonald by CeCe McDonald and Leo Cardoza
BOOKS
- Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica Meiners, and Beth Richie
- Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology by INCITE
- Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex by Eric Stanley and Nat Smith
- Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
- Abortion to Abolition: Reproductive Health and Justice in Canada by Martha Paynter, Illustrated by Julia Hutt
Technology
E-CARCERATION
- Repackaging Mass Incarceration by James Kilgore
- The Newest Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
BOOKS
- Carceral Capitalism by Jackie Wang
Trans and Queer Liberation
Introductory Texts
Queer-of-Color Critique
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Black Atlantic, Queer Atlantic: Queer Imaginings of the Middle Passage by Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley
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Stolen from Our Bodies: First Nations Two-Spirits/Queers and the Journey to a Sovereign Erotic by Qwo-Li Driskill
Books
- Aberrations in Black by Roderick Ferguson
Transformative Justice
BASICS
- Transformative Justice: A Brief Description by Mia Mingus
- Justice In America Episode 20: Mariame Kaba And Prison Abolition by Mariame Kaba on Justice in America
CARCERAL FEMINISM
- I don’t want my rapists to go to prison by Lydia Caradonna
- From Carceral Feminism to Transformative Justice by Mimi Kim
- Against Carceral Feminism by Victoria Law
- Critical Resistance-INCITE Statement on GBV by Critical Resistance and INCITE
- Podcast on Transformative Justice and #MeToo by Mariame Kaba
- Building Accountable Communities by Mariame Kaba
- Taking risks: implementing grassroots community accountability by Communities Against Rape and Abuse
- Community Accountability as Pedagogical Strategy by Ana Clarissa Rojas
- My friend’s a perp: what do I do? by Wesleyan Students for Consent and Communication
BOOKS
- Against Equality: Prisons will not Protect You by Ryan Conrad
- Stories of Transformative Justice by Ruth Moore