Here’s How Organizing to Abolish the Prison Industrial Complex Works in Practice

As more activists embrace abolition of the prison industrial complex, here’s what this work demands of us in practice. In the early 2000s, I sat in an organizing meeting discussing how to prevent a new prison from being built. After listening to several people talk about ways our coalition could encourage the prison to be sited somewhere else or on a smaller footprint, I wondered aloud if we...

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