The Politics of Prisons: Women’s Critiques and Alternatives (2020)

Around the world, prison systems rely on systems and structures that oppress and subjugate groups of people for the purpose of exploitation and social control. Prisons are a site of struggle for many social movements, which believe in approaches to justice and social peace beyond authoritarianism, surveillance and violence.

Why do prison struggles matter to women? What could prison abolition look like from a feminist perspective?