Black August Readings
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
The New Jim Crow (Intro and Ch. 1 only) by Michelle Alexander
“Constructing a Criminal Justice System Free of Radical Bias: An Abolitionist Framework” by Dorothy E. Roberts
“A Better World: Transformative Justice and the Apocalypse” by Kai Cheng
“Love as the Practice of Freedom” by bell hooks
“Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King Jr.
Zines & Pamphlets
Contraband Love by Humanities Behind Bars
Transformative Justice by Carmen Jones
Breaking Bars, Vol 1. by Humanities Behind Bars
Breaking Down Carceral Society & Building Another World by Alison Reed
Prison Strike 2018 by Fire Inside Collective
Virginia Prison Justice Network Newsletter Issue #59
Compilation of Statewide Anti-Prison Organizations by the Virginia Prison Justice Network
Hello by Nastassja E. Swift
Pedagogy Readings
“Humanities Behind Bars: Toward an Abolitionist Praxis in Prison Education Programs” by Meghan McDowell & Alison Reed (featured in Issue 30 of The Abolitionist)
“‘Can a Poem Stop a Jail from Being Built?’ On Fugitive Counter-Ethics as Prison Pedagogy” by Meghan McDowell & Alison Reed (selected reading from Prison Pedagogies)
The Undercommons by Stefano Harney & Fred Moten
Antiracism Inc.: Why the Way We Talk About Racial Justice Matters edited by Felice Blake, Paula Ionide, and Alison Reed
“Feeling Like a Failure: Teaching/Learning Abolition Through the Good, the Bad and the Innocent” by Jessi Lee Jackson & Erica R. Meiners
Abolition Readings
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis
Resource Guide for Teaching and Learning Abolition by Critical Resistance
Transformative Justice Handbook by generationFIVE
“Toward Transformative Justice: A Call to Action for the Left and the Sexual and Domestic Violence Sectors” by generationFIVE
“Constructing a Criminal Justice System Free of Racial Bias: An Abolitionist Framework” by Dorothy E. Roberts
A Better World: Transformative Justice and the Apocalypse by Kai Cheng
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Abolition Now!: Ten Years of Strategy and Struggle Against the Prison Industrial Complex
Films
Humanities Behind Bars 