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Unbuild walls : why immigrant justice needs abolition by Location: Available OnlineISBN: 9798888901038Publication Date: 2024Unbuild Walls dives into US immigration policy and its relationship to mass incarceration, from the last forty years up to the present, showing how the prison-industrial complex and immigration enforcement are intertwined systems of repression.
The Idea of Prison Abolition by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2022The Idea of Prison Abolition makes the case that we can make meaningful progress toward this ideal by abolishing the structural injustices that too often lead to crime and its harmful consequences.
Decarcerating Disability by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2020This vital addition to carceral, prison, and disability studies draws important new links between deinstitutionalization and decarceration.
Not Giving up on People by Location: Available OnlinePublication Date: 2024The authors argue for multigenerational collective action that aims to build resilient communities that support the wellbeing of everyone.
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This is a selection of articles available available through BU Libraries:
- "The dangerous few: Taking seriously prison abolition and its skeptics" by Thomas Ward Frampton (2022). Available here.
- "Prison abolition: international human rights law perspectives" by Isobel Renzulli (2022). Available here.
- "No Justice, No Resilience: Prison Abolition As Disaster Mitigation in an Era of Climate Change" by Carlee Purdum et. al (2021). Available here.
- "A New Prohibition Era: Book Banning, Prison Abolition, and Librarians" by Stephanie Birc (2022). Available here.
- "Islam and the Emancipatory Ethic: Islamic Law, Liberation Theology and Prison Abolition" by Haroon Bashir (2023). Available here.
- "Prison Abolition in the UK: They Dare Not Speak Its Name?" by Mick Ryanand Tony Ward (2015). Available here.
- "Prison abolition literacies as Pro-Black pedagogy in early childhood education" by Nathaniel Bryan et. al (2022). Available here.
The following articles are available externally:
- New Yorker: "Should We Abolish Prisons?" (2024)
- TruthOut: "Massachusetts’ Proposed Prison Moratorium Is a First Step Toward Abolition" (2024)
- Inquest: "Disability Justice Demands Abolition" (2024)
- Daily Signal: "Conservative Scholars Debate Prison Abolitionists at Berkeley Conference on Crime" (2024)
- The Marshall Project: "The Case for Abolition" (2019)
- The Marshall Project: "What Do Abolitionists Really Want?" (2019)
- Yes Magazine: "What Do We Do While Waiting to Realize Prison Abolition?" (2022)
