Articles

Popular Press

• Baker, B. (2020, Dec. 10). Why I became an abolitionist. Harper’s Bazaar. https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/politics/a34473938/why-i-became-an-abolitionist/
• Berger, D., Kaba, M., and Stein, D. (2017, Aug. 24). What abolitionists do. Jacobin. https://jacobin.com/2017/08/prison-abolition-reform-mass-incarceration
• Fuchs, L. W. (2021, Nov. 17). Why do we call the police? Dissent Magazine. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/booked-why-do-we-call-the-police
• Gilmore, R.W. & Kilgore, J. (2019, June 19). The case for abolition. The Marshall Project. https://www.themarshallproject.org/2019/06/19/the-case-for-abolition
• Janak, J. (2022, Mar. 10). Abolitionist efforts to transgress the prison walls. Hood Communist. https://hoodcommunist.org/2022/03/10/abolitionist-efforts-to-trangress-the-prison-walls/
• Kaba, M. (2020, Oct. 30). So you’re thinking about becoming an abolitionist. LEVEL. https://level.medium.com/so-youre-thinking-about-becoming-an-abolitionist-a436f8e31894
• Kaba, M. (2020, June 12). Yes, we mean literally abolish the police. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html.
• Kaba, M. and Hayes, K. (2018). A jailbreak of the imagination: Seeing prisons for what they are and demanding transformation. Truthout. https://truthout.org/articles/a-jailbreak-of-the-imagination-seeing-prisons-for-what-they-are-and-demanding-transformation/

Scholarly/Peer-reviewed

• Abu-Jamal, M. (2000). The industry of fear. Social Justice, 27(3), 22–24.
• Chandler, S. (2018). Social work, feminism, and prison abolition. Affilia, 33(1), 5–7. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886109917750961.
• Hill, M.L. (2013). A world without prisons: Teaching confinement literature and the promise of prison abolition. The English Journal, 102(4), 19-23.
• Lawston, J. M., & Meiners, E. R. (2014). Ending our expertise: Feminists, scholarship, and prison abolition. Feminist Formations, 26(2), 1-25.
• Palacios, L. (2016). Challenging convictions: Indigenous and Black race-radical feminists theorizing the carceral state and abolitionist praxis in the United States and Canada. Meridians, 15(1), 137-165. https://doi.org/10.2979/meridians.15.1.08
• Stanley, E., Spade, D., & Queer (In)Justice. (2012). Queering prison abolition, now? American Quarterly, 64(1), 115-127. www.jstor.org/stable/41412834.