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are u a prison abolitionist? If so do you have any good recs or sources about it

hi anon! lots of books for you. I'm assuming you've already read extremely well known texts like Are Prisons Obsolete and The New Jim Crow, so here are some you've perhaps not heard of before.

Emily Thuma, All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

Liat Ben-Moshe, Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition

Ben-Moshe, Carey, and Chapman, eds., Disability Incarcerated: Imprisonment and Disability in the United States and Canada

Eric Stanley & Nat Smith, Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Eric Stanley, Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable

Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Abolition Geography

Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California

Jackie Wang, Carceral Capitalism

hope this helps!

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And it’s worse than you think. This is my personal experience in jail. It isn’t unique, and you can watch The Alabama Solution if it seems exaggerated to you.

I was given a damp gym mat to sleep on and put in a room with 16 bunk beds and at least 42 people. The lights were only partially dimmed at night. There was one shower, two sinks, and three open toilets. There were no utensils: people ripped off part of their trays to scoop up food. You didn’t get to leave to eat.

For an hour a day, they passed out tablets. Inmates could use apps to talk to loved ones or play games. All of which were very expensive. I never saw a lawyer. I was put in a room with a cop and spoke with a judge on a TV screen. I was charged with driving without insurance, an expired tag, and a failure to appear in court. I was convicted of an expired tag. And I was lucky that my stay was only three days. Because people had been in that room for months waiting to go to trial.

They make people beg to work at KFC.

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i have a liberatory suggestion

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One king is as good as another.

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 3.01 "Salt and Sea, Fire and Blood"

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Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.