Getting Involved

You might feel like you don’t even know where to start to try and support those most impacted by incarceration, or how to help dismantle the brutal system and build something better in its place. Think of the list below as a starter pack to getting involved. This list is in no way comprehensive, but it just so happens to feature the people we learn from and respect. Getting informed is a good first step, and will most likely lead you to where you might plug in to help.

Books

  • "Are Prisons Obsolete?" by Angela Y. Davis 

  • “Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color” by Andrea J. Ritchie

  • “Practicing New Worlds” by Andrea J Ritchie

  • "The End of Policing" by Alex S. Vitale

  • "Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California" by Ruth Wilson Gilmore

  • "Abolition Democracy: Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture" by Angela Y. Davis

  • "We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice" by Mariame Kaba

  • Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News by Alex Karakatsanis

  • "No More Police: A Case for Abolition" by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie

  • “Black Reconstruction” by W.E.B. DuBois

  • “Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States” by Andrea Ritchie, Joey L. Mogul, and Kay Whitlock

  • “Let this Radicalize You” by by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba

  • “See you soon” By Mariame Kaba

Orgs/Sites/Reporting