Response: “A Word on Words”
Disagreements between prison abolitionists and those advocating sustaining prison reform may come down to words, but those words matter.
A Jacobin debate featuring Roger Lancaster, Dan Berger, Mariame Kaba, and David Stein.
Disagreements between prison abolitionists and those advocating sustaining prison reform may come down to words, but those words matter.
Prison abolitionists aren't naive dreamers. They're organizing for concrete reforms, animated by a radical critique of state violence.
The American prison system is brutal and unjust. But the rhetoric of prison abolition won’t help us end its depravities.