For any UK peeps, this is a really good intro report that works through the myths of incarceration and rehabilitation, prison labour, and the entire geography of British Prison industrial complex
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There& #39;s also this really short and succinct intro to what abolition is (in the British context) and answers to frequently asked questions
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There& #39;s a part 2 to this intro to prison abolition in the UK too
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And there& #39;s the start of this book called & #39;Why Prison?& #39; which gives some history
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This paper covers New Labour& #39;s role in prison expansion, https://sci-hub.tw/
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This is quite a long book but it gives a really good history of the prison with respect to capitalist accumulation and gender, again https://sci-hub.tw/
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This is a pretty short article and gives a really good summary of crime, prisons and abolition https://redfightback.org/free-them-all-for-public-health/amp/">https://redfightback.org/free-them...