Recs if you like Until We Reckon: Violence, Mass Incarceration, and a Road to Repair...

Books recommended by musician Lucy Dacus, a solo artist and member of the band boygenius. Pulled from her goodreads list.

Please let me know if I’ve missed anything, you have recommendations, or anything should be removed!

All of the books listed here are introductory texts for Prison Abolition. The books on this list need no prior knowledge and are all great starting points for understanding prison abolition. You will find personal accounts, journalistic and essay books, as well as accessible analyses and histories of policing/incarceration

This list is the why of abolition

Laws are threats made by the dominant socio-economic ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just a promise of violence that’s enacted and police are basically an occupying army, you know what I mean? You guys wanna make some bacon?

Created by a surviving family member of a police-sanctioned lynching.

Nonfiction books that address criminal psychology, flaws with the justice system, and what is to be done about it.