Because reform won’t happen.

There's nothing progressive about community policing — it deepens criminalization and expands police power.

Prison and police abolition were key to the thinking of many midcentury civil rights activists. Understanding why can help us ask for change in our own time.

Resources for Addressing Harm, Accountability, and Healing Toolkits, Reports, and Guides Community Accountability for Survivors of Sexual Violence Toolkit by Jane Hereth and Chez Rumpf…

Guest host Chenjerai Kumanyika speaks with abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore in a special two-part episode.

The possibilities are endless, if we allow ourselves to dream bigger than criminalization and bondage.

Grassroots groups around Chicago are already putting abolitionist ideas into practice.

In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.

David Whitehouse Los orígenes de la policía 2014 Publicado originalmente en inglés bajo el título Origins of the police en worxintheory.wordpress.com. El...

Three South Carolina inmates call attention to egregious conditions ahead of a nationwide prison strike

As with calls to defund the police, the movement to abolish police is just another step in our long-game goal of dismantling the entire prison industrial complex.

What will it take to imagine and build a world without prisons? And why are abolition and anticapitalism two sides of the same struggle?

Because reform won’t happen.

In 2018, several women in central Texas filed a class-action lawsuit on behalf of “all women” against Austin’s police chief Brian Manley, as well as the Travis County sheriff and the city’s district...

{Photo credit: Ashley Landis/AP} By Joshua Briond In Blood In My Eye , the late great George Jackson writes: “the purpose of the chief repressive institutions within the totalitarian capitalist state...

As an incarcerated penal abolitionist, I’m often asked by other prisoners: what do we do about murderers and rapists? When this happens, I acknowledge the fears that people convicted of these crime…

Dorothy Roberts argues that any attempt to substitute police with family service workers is a shift from one racist institution to another

The US prison regime functions through a racial chattel logic. Its animating force is not economic exploitation but rather racialized social reorganization and neutralization.

Long running abolitionist and queer liberation group Gay Shame offers up this analysis on the abolitionist struggle. It is important to remember that institutional violence flows not merely from the...

~ * above image credit unknown * ~ Below you will find two new zines highlighting the capacity of non-imprisoned abolitionists for direct action against the prison industrial complex and racist car…

La verdadera pregunta es ¿cómo puede un sistema, profundamente arraigado en una historia sangrienta fundada en la supremacía blanca, el capitalismo y el neoliberalismo, conocer una justicia verdadera...

Defunding the police is just the beginning.

By Charlotte Rosen The police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tony McDade, and the subsequent uprisings against racist police brutality in Minneapolis and cities across the nation, hav…

The following is an interview with Craig Gilmore, Emily Posner, Sylvia Ryerson, Judah Schept and Panagioti Tsolkas. In 1999, Critical Resistance entered the campaign to fight the Delano II prison i…