Carceral Violence and Abolition

This section focuses on violences against and within marginalized communities, specifically related to police brutality, the prison industrial complex, abolition, and resistance.

PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX & POLICE BRUTALITY

Several places already have excellent reading lists related to the carceral system and abolition in the US, including the Prison Abolition Syllabus by the African American Intellectual History Society (which includes topics like "Anti-Lynching and Prisoner Defense Campaigns" and includes first person sources), this list from the Prison Culture website/blog, this reading list from Melanie Newport's blog "Exploring the History of the Jail Crisis", and the Carceral Feminism and Abolition resource pages on the Abolish Everything website. Below are more resources and readings.

Readings

Poetry

Resources

ABOLITION

RESISTANCE & MOBILIZATION

DISABILITY JUSTICE & STATE VIOLENCE

PUBLIC HEALTH & THE CARCERAL SYSTEM