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How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement

An incisive guide to abolitionist strategy, and a love letter to the movement that made this moment possible.

Critics of abolition sometimes castigate the movement for its utopianism, but in How to Abolish Prisons, long-time organizers Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché reveal a movement that has made the struggle for abolition as real as the institutions they are fighting against.

Drawing on extensive interviews with abolitionist crews all over North America, Herzing and Piché provide a collective reconstruction of what the grassroots movement to abolish prisons actually is, what initiatives it has launched, how it organizes itself, and how its protagonists build the day-to-day practice of politics. Readers sit in on the Winnipeg rideshares of Bar None and the meetings of the Chicago Community Bail Fund as they assess the utility of politicized mutual aid. They follow the campaigns and coalitions of Critical Resistance in Oakland and San Francisco and Survived and Punished in New York City, and learn about the prisoner correspondence projects that keep activists behind bars and outside them in constant coordination.

Abolitionist campaigns are constructing on-the-ground initiatives across North America to deconstruct carceral society and build resistant communities.Through the words, deeds, and personalities of this beautifully peopled movement, How to Abolish Prisons emerges as a stunning snapshot of a movements thinking in motion.

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  • Dimensions: 133 x 190mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Apr 2024
  • Publisher: Haymarket Books
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9798888900833

About Justin PichJustin PichéRachel Herzing

Rachel Herzing is an organizer activist and advocate fighting the violence of surveillance policing and imprisonment for over two decades. Herzing was executive director of Center for Political Education a resource for political organizations on the left and progressive social movements; co-director of Critical Resistance a national organization dedicated to abolishing the prison industrial complex; and director of research and training at Creative Interventions a community resource that developed interventions to interpersonal harm that do not rely on policing imprisonment or traditional social services. She lives in New York City.Justin Piché is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology and Director of the Carceral Studies Research Collective at the University of Ottawa and co-editor of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons. He is a recipient of the Aurora Prize from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada which recognizes an outstanding new scholar who is building a reputation for exciting and original research in the social sciences and humanities. He lives in Ottawa.Mariame Kaba is an organizer educator librarian and prison industrial complex abolitionist who is active in movements for racial gender and transformative justice. She is the author of We Do This 'Til We Free Us and the co-author with Andrea Richie of No More Police and with Kelly Hayes of Let This Radicalize You.

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