
What Abolitionists Do
Prison abolitionists aren’t naive dreamers. They’re organizing for concrete reforms, animated by a radical critique of state violence.
Dan Berger is associate professor of comparative ethnic studies at the University of Washington at Bothell and the author of Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era.
Prison abolitionists aren’t naive dreamers. They’re organizing for concrete reforms, animated by a radical critique of state violence.
This fall’s prison strikes are a model of how to both survive and challenge an authoritarian, racist order.