Police Brutality
The Basics
- 10 Things to Know about Combating Violence in America
- A Hidden Factor in Police Shootings of Black Americans: Decades of Housing Segregation
- A Tale of Force: Examining Policy Proposals to Address the Issue of Police Violence
- Black, Disabled and at Risk: The Overlooked Problem of Police Violence Against Americans with Disabilities
- Cops Don’t Stop Violence: Combatting Narratives Used to Defend Police Instead of Defund Them
- Fatal police violence by race and state in the USA, 1980–2019: a network meta-regression
- ‘Fiscal Justice Ratings’ Fight Police Brutality With Finance
- Here’s What You Need to Know About Elijah McClain’s Death
- How Do the Police Actually Spend Their Time?
- How unjust police killings damage the mental health of Black Americans
- More than half of US killings by police go unreported: Study
- Police Corruption
- Police Excessive Force
- Police Militarization
- Police killings: the price of being disabled and black in America
- Police Killings Almost Never Lead To Murder Charges
- Police Officer Drags Man by Hair From Car. ‘I’m Paraplegic,’ He Protests.
- Police “Reforms” You Should Always Oppose
- Policing and Profit
- Policing Can’t End Violence in the U.S., But Reparations Might
- Rise of the Warrior Cop
- Sandra Bland, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray: the toll of police violence on disabled Americans
- Shot By Cops and Forgotten
- The Police Are Not Here to Protect You
- Trading Cops for Social Workers Isn’t the Solution to Police Violence
- Up to Half of People Killed by Police Are Disabled
- What the data say about police brutality and racial bias — and which reforms might work
- What the police really believe
Books
- Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color by Andrea Ritchie
Incarceration
The Basics
- Against Carceral Feminism
- Beyond Bars: Prison Abolition Should Be the American Dream
- Build Justice Not Jails: Community Health Initiatives
- Challenging Convictions: Indigenous and Black Race-Radical Feminists Theorizing the Carceral State and Abolitionist Praxis in the United States and Canada
- Don’t Use Domestic Violence Victims to Derail Police Reform
- Freedom to Thrive: Reimagining Safety & Security in Our Communities (pdf)
- From the Prison of Slavery to the Slavery of Prison: Frederick Douglass and the Convict Lease System by Angela Davis
- How Anti-Violence Activism Taught me to Become a Prison Abolitionist
- How Can We Reconcile Prison Abolition with #MeToo?
- I Was Sexually Assaulted. And I Believe Incarcerating Rapists Doesn’t Help Victims Like Me
- If We Abolish Police, What Happens to Rapists?
- Introduction to the PIC
- Living While Black and the Criminalization of Blackness
- Locking People Up Doesn’t Make Us Safer, Abuse Survivor Says
- Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020
- Policing Black Radicalism
- Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow
- The Mass Criminalization of Black Americans: A Historical Overview
- The Sentencing of Larry Nassar Was Not ‘Transformative Justice.’ Here’s Why
- The Untold Story of Mass Incarceration
- To End Mass Incarceration, Our Society Must Look Beyond the ‘Non-Violent Drug Offenses
- WE ARE NOT DISPOSABLE: The Toxic Impacts of Prison and Jails
- We Came to Learn: A Call for Police-Free Schools
- Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History
Videos
Private Prisons
- Abolishing Private Prisons Is a Start, But It Will Not End Mass Incarceration
- Elizabeth Warren’s Flawed but Well-Intentioned Proposal for Banning Private Prisons
- How Prisons Serve Capitalism
- Prison Reform Misdirection: 5 Caveats About Private Prisons and Mass Incarceration
- Some Reflections on Prison Labor
Immigration
- Abolish Immigration Prisons
- Grassroots Activists: “Abolish ICE” Means Disband, Not Reform the Agency
- Immigration Detention is Part of Mass Incarceration: The Case for Abolishing ICE and Everything Else
- Undoing Border Imperialism by Harsha Walia
Resources
Disability
- Abolition Must Include Psychiatry
- Changing the Framework: Disability Justice
- Deaf in Prison
- Deinstitutionalization: A Case Study in Carceral Abolition
- Disability Justice — A Working Draft
- Disability Justice Is an Essential Part of Abolishing Police and Prisons
- Disability Solidarity: Completing the ‘Vision for Black Lives
- Mia Mingus on Disability Justice
- Moving at the Speed of Trust: Disability and Transformative Justice
- The Prison Strike Challenges Ableism and Defends Disability Rights
LGBTQ+
- Black Trans Feminist Thought Can Set Us Free
- Five Reasons Mass Incarceration is a Queer Issue
- Queering Prison Abolition, Now?
- The Queer and Trans Fight For Liberation — and Abolition
- The Unfair Criminalization of Gay and Transgender Youth
- What if the LGBTQ Movement Fought for Prison Abolition Rather than Same-Sex Marriage?
Religion
Christianity
- A Christian Case for Prison Abolition
- Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the Abolition of Prisons by Joshua Dubler and Vincent Lloyd
- Introductory Abolitionist Theologies
- Mass Incarceration Is Religious (and So Is Abolition): A Provocation
Islam
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