September/October 2021

The Prison Abolition Issue

In our special Prison Abolition Issue, we asked prisoners across Canada and the U.S. to reflect on the question, "Can you imagine a world without prisons?" They write about surviving COVID outbreaks; unequal treatment of women and men inside; prisons as a tool of colonialism; the war on drugs and coercive drug treatment programs; what it would take to heal intergenerational trauma; participating in hunger strikes and prisoners' committees; and fighting to abolish prisons from inside them.

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Inside This Issue

How the Prison Abolition Issue came to be

by The Prison Abolition Issue editorial collective Sep 2, 2021 11 min read
Evidence of an unjust justice system

by Anonymous Sep 2, 2021 7 min read
Fed up with being locked down

by Frére Corbeau Sep 2, 2021 5 min read
Prisons are built on our backs

by Cory Charles Cardinal Sep 2, 2021 5 min read
Criminal code is the new buffalo

by Andy Peekeekoot Sep 2, 2021 8 min read
On Therapeutic Community

by Trenton Tompkins Sep 2, 2021 8 min read
Death by a thousand cuts: Aging in Canadian prisons

by Christophe Lewis Sep 2, 2021 8 min read
Two poems from prison

by Levi Waldbillig Sep 2, 2021 2 min read
Why choose to live?

by Roi Kuvé Sep 2, 2021 5 min read
Guilty until proven innocent

by Deborah McKenzie Sep 2, 2021 8 min read
Abuse of authority

by Amanda Rae Sep 2, 2021 8 min read
COVID and sexism in a women’s prison

by Tamina D. Hamid Sep 2, 2021 6 min read
Healed people heal people

by Jessie Milo Sep 2, 2021 8 min read
Cosmetic change is not prison reform

by Ojore McKinnon Sep 2, 2021 8 min read
One less prison to be torn down

by Robert Black Sep 2, 2021 4 min read
What does freedom feel like?

by James Ruston Sep 2, 2021 2 min read