We will list general resources here for people who are interested in prison abolition and how prison abolition is important to trans liberation and really addressing social marginalization broadly. Let us know in the comments if there are other resources you would like us to share here, and if you would like to write a guest blog on a good resource, we welcome your contributions!
- “What is Transformative Justice and Community Accountability (TJ/CA)?” by Liz Nixon.
- All the publications at Interrupting Criminalization!
- Alex X. Vitale, The End of Policing. Here is the entry on Goodreads.
- Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law, Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms. Here is the entry on Goodreads.
- Ava DuVernay, When They See Us. The story of the Central Park Five. Available on Netflix and possibly other streaming services. IMDB entry.
- Angela Davis, Are Prisons Obsolete? There are several free sources, with the Anarchist Library probably being the best digital download version.
- Eight to Abolition website.
- The Uncounted Workforce, a short podcast about prison labor, interviewing Dominique Morgan of B&P.
- Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow. Here is the entry on Goodreads.
- Shane Bauer, American Prison. This is a recent and very accessible account of undercover reporting at a for-profit prison in Louisiana, interspersed with a history of the US prison system. Entry at Goodreads is here, and the Mother Jones article that preceded the book can be found here.
- Critical Resistance web site. A great resource for information about prison abolition and transformational justice.
- Against Equality web site, prison theme resources. A good resource for prison abolition, hate crimes perspectives, and other information from trans/queer perspectives.
- Barnard Center for Research on Women, prison abolition topics, with Dean Space and Reina Gossett; prison abolition from trans empowerment perspectives
- The No One is Disposable: Everyday Practices of Prison Abolition series.
- Impossibility Now! About how incarceration and detention fit into larger issues of marginalization and empowerment: