5 Nonfiction Books on Prison Abolition

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16 participants (8 books)

06 Mar 2024—31 Dec 2024

Overview

Let’s read at least five prison abolition books in 2024.

Challenge Books

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Abolitionist Intimacies by El Jones

Abolitionist Intimacies

El Jones

218 pages • first pub 2022 (editions)

nonfiction essays poetry politics race emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms by Victoria Law, Maya Schenwar

Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms

Victoria Law, Maya Schenwar

240 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced
When Stars Are Scattered by Omar Mohamed, Victoria Jamieson

When Stars Are Scattered

Omar Mohamed, Victoria Jamieson

264 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction graphic novel memoir middle grade emotional sad slow-paced
We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice by Mariame Kaba

We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice

Abolitionist Papers

Mariame Kaba

206 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction essays politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom

Derecka Purnell

288 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II

Douglas A. Blackmon

468 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective sad slow-paced
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

352 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Angela Y. Davis

128 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative reflective medium-paced