pris•on ab•o•li•tion

noun

1. The dis­man­tling of the prison sys­tem; the end of coerced con­fine­ment as punishment

2. The con­struc­tion of alter­na­tives to prison and of a world that dis­in­cen­tivizes violence

“While there is a low­er class I am in it, and while there is a crim­i­nal ele­ment, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” —Social­ist Eugene V. Debs, in a state­ment to the court after being con­vict­ed of sedi­tion in 1918.

Don’t Pris­ons Keep Peo­ple Safe?