Recommended Resources
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Let’s Get Free: The Women and Trans Prisoner Defense committee
National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls
Release Aging People in Prison
San Francisco Public Library’s Expanding Information Access for Incarcerated People Initiative
Institute for the Development of Human Arts
Prison Activist Resource Center
Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM)
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Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020), Nicole Fleetwood 2020
Emergent Strategy (2017) and Loving Corrections (2024), adrienne maree brown
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement (2020), eds. Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
We Do This ‘til We Free Us (2021), Mariame Kaba
The Sentences that Create Us: Crafting a Writer’s Life in Prison (2022), ed. Caits Meissner
By Heart: Prison, Poetry, and Two Lives (2010), Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson
The Book of Judith: Opening Hearts through Poetry (2022), eds. Spoon Jackson, Mark Foss, Sara Press
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010), Michelle Alexander
The Moral Imagination: The Art and Soul of Building Peace (2005), John Paul Lederach
Abolition. Feminism. Now. (2022), Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, Beth E. Richie
Becoming Abolitionists (2021), Derecka Purnell
Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003), Angela Y. Davis
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1995), Michael Foucault
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Sentenced to Trauma: Inside the volatility and trauma of prison, Carla Simmons for Scalawag
As an incarcerated person, I feel connected to the people of Gaza, Carla Simmons for PRISM
Collection of articles on incarceration + mental health, Prison Policy Initiative
Let Kids Be Kids: the Effects of Parental Incarceration on Children, Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Wife After Prison (focus on Post-Incarceration Syndrome)