Recs if you like "Prisons Make Us Safer": And 20 Other Myths about Mass Incarceration...

If you're looking to read something that will radicalize you...this is the list for you. Signed, your fave community organizer

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.

"I want to live in a World where people who learn about harm to others care more about ending it than proving they aren't causing it." - feminist next door

NonFiction books for those who are interested in what's happening in the world now (or at least, in the last decade) while also being super easy to read for those who don't usually jive with nonfiction.

my personal non-fiction tbr list