madnessendsbutwhen:

radicalgraff:

Anarchist posters seen around Sydney

I will never understand how a society would work without prisons. The prison industrial complex is one of the most evil systems in the world, used as a tool against poor people and minorities.

But like… we still need to lock up rapists and murderers. What is the solution? Other system? Im genuinely asking

Whether you like reading or listening to videos, there are plenty of resources online:

• Dean Spade on “Crime and Punishment” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia5vuHdBtz4
• Ruth Wilson Gilmore “Don’t Reform Prisons, Abolish Them” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akirVY5Mqsg 

• “Prisons Will Not Protect You”, an anthology by the radical LGBTQ group “Against Equality" http://www.againstequality.org/stuff/against-equality-prisons-will-not-protect-you/
• “Alternatives to Police” by Rose City Copwatch http://cobp.resist.ca/sites/cobp.resist.ca/files/alternatives-to-police-web.pdf
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  “Prison Abolition is Practical” by Nathan Goodman [me] http://c4ss.org/content/20326
• “Resisting Gender Violence Without Cops or Prisons” by Victoria Law http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qlozk7G-JYo

   

• Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex (PDF)
• Transformative Justice 101
  
• Anarchy works – Who will protect us? https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-anarchy-works#toc41
• The Justice Trap – Law and the Disempowerment of society https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-gelderloos-the-justice-trap-law-and-the-disempowerment-of-society
• Are Prisons necessary? https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-are-prisons-necessary

And many more books, journals, and so on that you could read for more in depth information. This is a big topic and not everyone has the same perspective on how to build a world without prisons, so if one article or video doesn’t answer all your answers, try another, dig a little deeper.