What Abolitionists Do

This article was written by Dan Berger, Mariame Kaba, and David Stein and published in Jacobin.

“Prison abolitionists aren't naive dreamers. They're organizing for concrete reforms, animated by a radical critique of state violence…

To us, people with a combined several decades of experience in the prison abolition movement, abolition is both a lodestar and a practical necessity. Central to abolitionist work are the many fights for non-reformist reforms — those measures that reduce the power of an oppressive system while illuminating the system’s inability to solve the crises it creates.”