Truthout
The Road to Abolition
Exploring abolition — both in imagination and in practice — and the movement toward a more liberated future.
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How the Trans Murder Spectacle Perpetuates Myths About Justice
Focusing on individual murderers and their incarceration will never prevent the murder of trans people or promote justice.
Wrestling With Angels: Walidah Imarisha on Harm and Accountability
Author Walidah Imarisha discusses her new book and her commitment to grappling with the need for prison abolition.
Making the Improbable Possible in the Struggle for Freedom: Angela Davis’ New Book
In her most recent collection, Angela Y. Davis reorients our relationship to struggle toward one of radical possibilities.
The Radical Work of Healing: Fania and Angela Davis on a New Kind of Civil Rights Activism
Fania is calling for a truth and reconciliation process focused on the historic racial trauma that continues to haunt the US.
Beyond Reform: Abolishing Prisons
Is the problem simply that too many people are incarcerated—or is incarceration a problem, in and of itself?
“Captive Genders”: CeCe McDonald, Chelsea Manning and Others Map Road to Trans Liberation
The anthology's pages brim with anger, grief, hope, humor and daring.
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Big Dreams and Bold Steps Toward a Police-Free Future
Is now the time to move toward the abolition of policing?
Beyond Amnesty: The Battle Over Sex Work Decriminalization
Forget Lena Dunham. Here is the real scoop on the future of sex work, at home and abroad.
Still Boxed Out: NYU Discriminates Against Students Who Have Faced Arrest
It's time to abolish college application questions that require disclosing documented interaction with the criminal legal system.
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Black Immigrants’ Lives Matter: Disrupting the Dialogue on Immigrant Detention
The developing discourse on immigrant detention undermines the political vision of prison abolition.