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The Women Fighting for Prison Abolition Believe a Better World Is Possible

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want? “I came to this from working in domestic violence and sexual assault [prevention and advocacy],” says Mariame Kaba, a longtime educator and activist and a leading abolitionist. “I recognized that what folks were asking for wasn’t what we were doing.

The system wasn’t working; people weren’t getting what they needed.”What sets abolitionists apart from others who want to improve the system is that they’re emphatically not reformers.

Their plan is not to increase spending or community policing efforts, upgrade technology, or add rehabilitative programs. A system this inherently violent, racist, and ineffective can only be scrapped, they say. “It’s a vision that’s about creating a different kind of world—different communities, different.

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