#prison-industrial complex

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Madness, Disability, and Abolition

Mad Liberation Front Madness, Disability, and Abolition 2021 In this critical analysis, the author examines how prison and police abolition

[whilereadingandwalking]

As the pandemic took over, it became harder than ever to get books into prisons—but it was never exactly easy, as challenges ranged from censorship to access. 

In my latest article for Book Riot, I talk to DC Books to Prisons, the Prison Book Project in Florida, and Chicago Books to Women in Prison, as well as three scholars of the subject, to not only break down the challenges of getting books into prisons, but to present their forward-thinking perspectives on how we could make prison libraries and resources fundamentally better for those inside. 

Finally, the piece breaks down how you can help. This piece was a tremendous amount of work, and I am intensely proud of it. Please consider reading!

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Holes & The Prison-Industrial Complex

[entheognosis]

Maybe Abolishing America's Police Forces Isn't as Crazy as It Sounds

There are some surprisingly convincing arguments.

Rather than fight and solve violent crimes, police act as little more than heavily militarized code-enforcers, or as David Graeber of the London School of Economics aptly terms, “bureaucrats with weapons” — protecting us from broken tail lights, missing front license plates, and imperfect lane changes more often than from robbery, homicide, and rape.

Give police the equipment and weapons of war under the premise of fighting terrorism, when terrorism is all but nonexistent, and predictably, they will go to war. As Abraham Maslow posited in 1966 in a concept known as the law of the instrument, “I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.”

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“How, then, do we accomplish this balancing act of passionately attending to the needs of prisoners  - calling for less violent conditions, an end to state sexual assault, improved physical and mental health care, greater access to drug programs, better educational work opportunities, unionization of prison labor, more connections with families and communities, shorter or alternative sentencing - and at the same time call for alternatives to sentencing altogether, no more prison construction, and abolitionist strategies that question the place of the prison in our future?” - Angela Y. Davis, “The Prison Industrial Complex

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