The Emerging Movement for Police and Prison Abolition
“Our current criminal-justice system is rooted in the assumption that millions of people require policing, surveillance, containment, prison. It is a dark view of humanity. By contrast, Kaba and others in this emergent movement fervently believe in the capacity of people to change in changed conditions. That is the optimism at the heart of the abolitionist project.
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor May 7, 2021
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