num_pages: 176
description: As new and more virulent articulations of imprisonment policing and surveillance have grown over the past decade one thing remains clear: the prison industrial complex must be abolished. Critical Resistance is a leading voice in the movement for abolition and the pieces in this collection are powerful tools for both long-time activists and those brand new to the movement for abolition now!Angela Y. Davis author of Are Prisons Obsolete?The number of people in prison in the United States has risen 400 percent in the last twenty yearsthe worlds highest incarceration rate. Over seven million people currently live under the control of US jail prison probation or parole systemsthe vast majority of them people of color and young people. Policing at all levels is increasingly militarized and demands more and more resources.For a decade Critical Resistance has organized to abolish the reliance on imprisonment policing and surveillance seeing the prison industrial complex (PIC) not as a broken system to be fixed but a well-oiled machine that must be eliminated entirely.Published in honor of Critical Resistances tenth anniversary Abolition Now! reflects the organizations themes: Dismantle Change and Build. It presents bold strategies to create a stronger movement of people committed to PIC abolition and building stronger safer healthier communities not more elaborate forms of repression.The CR10 Publications Collective is a national grassroots organization with thousands of members and supporters working toward reducing the current prison population stopping construction of new prisons and developing alternative public safety models.
language: English
title: Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex
publisher: AK Press