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How to Abolish Prisons
Lessons from the Movement
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An incisive guide to abolitionist strategy, and a love letter to the movement that made this moment possible. Long-time organisers Rachel Herzing and Justin Piche reveal a movement that has made the struggle for abolition as real as the institutions they are fighting against. Drawing on...
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An incisive guide to abolitionist strategy, and a love letter to the movement that made this moment possible.
Long-time organisers Rachel Herzing and Justin Piche 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 Piche provide a collective reconstruction of what the grassroots movement to abolish prisons actually is, what initiatives it has launched, how it organises 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 politicised 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.
How to Abolish Prisons emerges as a stunning snapshot of a movement's thinking in motion.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9798888900833
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 April 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Foreword by Mariame Kaba
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 133.0mm
Height: 190.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 192
About the Author
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.
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.
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