Abolition Constitutionalism
Vol. 133 No. 1
Slavery has been fruitful in giving itself names . . . and you and I and all of us had better wait and see what new form...
Prison Abolition
Immigration Detention and Abolition
Prison abolitionism has gained traction. Louisiana, for example, has taken steps recently to reduce the population of the state’s prisons. In June 2017, the...
Abolition as Praxis of Human Being: A Foreword
Vol. 132 No. 6
I. The Long Abolitionist Project What are the historical conditions and political imperatives of “abolition” as a contemporary praxis? How does abolition generate a...
Abolition And Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice, And Accountability
Vol. 132 No. 6
The historical context of abolition is minimally understood, either in today’s social movements or in U.S. society more broadly. For our political strategies and...
In Spite of Prison
Vol. 132 No. 6
How does a former gang-banging, gun-toting Latino serving a thirty-year prison sentence, the product of an elderly uneducated immigrant father and a drug-addicted mother,...
Introduction
Vol. 132 No. 6
Introduction Many agree that American carceral punishment is unjust; from the New York Times to the Movement for Black Lives, calls for urgent and...
Envisioning Abolition Democracy
Vol. 132 No. 6
What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society that could...