Abolishing prisons and police

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Yvonne Davis

The First Civil Right: Race and the Rise of the Carceral State

Naomi Murakawa

Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California (American Crossroads)

Ruth Wilson Gilmore

From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America

Elizabeth Hinton

The End of Policing

Alex Vitale

23/7: Pelican Bay Prison and the Rise of Long-term Solitary Confinement

Keremat Reiter

Abolition Democracy : Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire Interviews with Angela Y. Davis (Open Media)

Angela Yvonne Davis

Abolishing Carceral Society (Abolition: a Journal of Insurgent Politics)

Abolition Collective

Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex

The CRIO Publications Collective and The CR10 Publications Collective

Badges without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing

Stuart Schrader

Beyond Survival

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ejeris Dixon

Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Derecka Purnell

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