Mix of personal narratives and essays by people serving life or virtual life sentences envisioning a world without perpetual punishment. Many contributors (inside and free) lay out how we might integrate those convicted of serious harm back into communities, what true accountability could entail decades later, and how to shift from retribution to reconciliation.

Drawing on a decade of writing on justice and community-based responses to conflicts, this substantive book features 45 articles from community members, scholars, judges, lawyers, and Elders. Justice As Healing is now the main textbook in countless classes on Indigenous Studies as well as on restorative justice.

• A Call for a Transformative Public Health Training: The Necessity of Abolition — PDF Online

• Public Health Finally Sees Incarceration as a Crisis. Abolition Is the Solution. — Truthout Article

“Subversion & The Art of Slavery Abolition,” curated by Dr. Michelle Commander at the Schomburg Center of NYPL, showcases how abolitionists in the 18th and 19th centuries harnessed literature, visual arts, music, and even covert resistance to expose slavery’s horrors and galvanize the public against it.

A curated list of songs spanning genres and decades that reflect abolitionist themes (from Nina Simone’s “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free” to Noname’s “Rainforest”).

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With her book, Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration, Nicole R. Fleetwood offers a powerful document of the inner lives and creative visions of people rendered invisible by America’s prison system.

The CUNY Public Science Project created this zine, titled Freedom Dreaming, asking students to contribute a page that reflected their own experiences as CUNY students, as community members, as family members across themes of education for liberation and educational justice.  — Website

Explores how gender, incarceration, and political imprisonment intersect. — PDF Online on transreads.org

Essential for understanding how the state targets Black radicals, especially Black women. — Website

A former Black Panther and political prisoner, Muntaqim offers a powerful reflection on resistance, repression, and liberation. — PDF Online

Historical audio, documents, and radical education tools on prisoners from the Black Power, Puerto Rican Independence, AIM, and Chicano movements — Website

Includes — “Assata: An Autobiography” by Assata Shakur – Memoir of Black Panther exile Assata Shakur, who recounts her experiences of police violence, trial, prison escape, and life in Cuba, and Eyes of the Rainbow (1997), a documentary film by Gloria Rolando about Assata Shakur.

A short documentary on FBI repression of Black, Indigenous, and radical organizers. — Vimeo
Teaching about COINTELPRO with documentary — Freedom Archives Website

Profiles of dozens of U.S. political prisoners (from Black Panthers to Puerto Rican independentistas) with case histories and status updates. Useful for study groups to assign each person to a member to research and present, building awareness that abolition includes remembering, supporting, and freeing those imprisoned for liberation struggles. Also highlights international solidarity campaigns (e.g., global demands to free them). — Website

Abstract: Survived & Punished (S&P) is a national coalition that  includes survivors, organizers, victim advocates, legal advocates and attorneys, policy experts, scholars, and currently and formerly incarcerated people. S&P organizes to de-criminalize efforts to survive domestic and sexual violence, support and free criminalized survivors, and abolish gender violence, policing, prisons, and deportations — Survived & Punished website-Publications Page

Anthology of writings by political prisoners (Mumia Abu-Jamal, Leonard Peltier, Silvia Baraldini, and others) and about the history of U.S. political imprisonment. Highlights how incarcerated activists analyze the prison system and connect domestic repression to U.S. imperialism abroad. Provides crucial context on COINTELPRO and why abolitionists call to free all political prisoners. 

Critical Resistance has worked to curtail the use and impacts of imprisonment. Through this work, Critical Resistance has generated countless resources to fight imprisonment in many different institutions. — Website

Videos from Project Nia's series, "Building Your Abolitionist Toolbox: Everyday Resources for a Punishment-Free World." — Youtube