List of readings: https://abolitionistfutures.com/intro-to-abolition-2022

Session 1 2022: Intro to Abolition

Original Article: https://abolitionistfutures.com/s/The-Abolitionist-Number-1-Editorial.pdf

Session 1 of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list. For the full readings see here: https://abolitionistfutures.com/intro-to-abolition-2022

Radical Alternatives to Prison - The Abolitionist

Original article: https://level.medium.com/so-youre-thinking-about-becoming-an-abolitionist-a436f8e31894

Session 1 of the Abolitionist Futures Reading list. For the full readings see here: https://abolitionistfutures.com/intro-to-abolition-2022

So You’re Thinking about Becoming an Abolitionist - Mariame Kaba

‘Ask Any Woman’, Ruth Hall, Issue 19, 1985’ (4 pages)

Ask Any Woman - Ruth Hall

Women in Prison - A Historical Overview’, Joe Sim, Issue 8, Spring 1981 (4 pages)

Original article: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xd0gCS4-RJWlzABwO3J3AMW40UIRo2Ks/view

Women in Prison : A Historical Overview - Joe Sim

From The Abolitionist. Original article: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R_HhgJi0G9EEk4VAIQoYtGm_d_l7rGKe/view

Mailbag - Armagh Jail Outrage

Content Warning: This article was written in 1983 and deals with death, and describes suicide mean, and publishes suicide notes. Since this time much work has been done in terms of reporting suicides. 

Please excercise caution before listening

Not A Happy Place - Tony Ward (CW deals with death & suicide)

Content Warning: This article was written in 1983 and deals with death; decomposing bodies and state violence.

INQUEST: On Cell Death - David Leadbetter issue 13; 1983

The Experiment That Went Wrong, from 'The Abolitionist' journal, Issue 20, 1985.

The Experiment That Went Wrong, 'The Abolitionist' Issue 20, 1985

Policing and coercion: what are the alternatives? - Guy Aitchison

Theorizing Transformative Justice - Melanie Brazzell

Beyond Policing, for the Politics of Breathing - Vanessa E. Thompson

Black Lives and the State of Distraction  - Eddie Bruce-Jones

Abolitionist Futures Reading List - Session 1

Critical Resistance - What Is Abolition?

Angela Davis - Are Prisons Obsolete: Introduction

Abolitionist Futures Reading Group - Session 1

So You’re Thinking about Becoming an Abolitionist - Mariame Kaba

Abolitionist Futures

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