Recs if you like Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America's Prison Nation...

These texts all require some level of prior knowledge and understanding of abolition, how the carceral system functions, organizing, & more.

I also have a list for intro/beginner texts

The “school-to-prison pipeline” refers to the policies and practices that push our nation’s schoolchildren, especially our most at-risk children, out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. This pipeline reflects the prioritization of incarceration over education.

This list is for educational purposes.

I will have a comment categorizing these reads to help you know where you should start!

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

Historical scholarship which is critical of US state power, or which falls under a broad understanding of ‘critical’ approaches to the study of US history: e.g. Marxist history; contrapuntal history; women of color history; black radical history. More to come—

Mostly for people who want to dismantle racism within themselves and dismantle the societal systems in place.