Something I think maybe reformers aren’t seeing (?) is that I (and other abolitionists, presumably) hold the positions i do because the state and carceral system literally cannot fulfill the visions for justice we have. The state as it stands literally does not have the (1/x)

Capacity to remedy harm, make people whole, or prevent further harm effectively. It doesn’t!! The changes we want to see are literally not things the justice system can do in its current form! That’s why we have to abolish it!

Reading Allegra McLeod’s “Envisioning Abolition Democracy” where she talked about how the Chicago Torture Justice Memorials demanded extra-legal reparations bc the state COULD NOT make victims of J*n Burge whole in a meaningful/lasting way literally changed my mf worldview

The justice system also has no way to make the families of Breonna Taylor or George Floyd other than perpetuating incarceration. Nothing in the way the state handles these horrific cases has anything to do with the family, the victims, their needs, etc.

If our goals are justice + empowerment + growth + community, the only way there is penal abolition. Period. Sorry this thread is kind of a cluster folk but I’m having THOUGHTS and FEELINGS today