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.”