Starter resource guide compiled by Elly Belle, with help from K & Micah Herskind

A few Twitters to follow to start (feel free to add!):

• Mariame Kaba
• K
• Kei
• Josie Duffy Rice
• Hernán Carvente Martinez
• Kim Kelly
• Micah Herskind
• Free Them All
• No New Jails
• Project NIA
• Survived and Punished
• Release Aging People in Prison (RAPP) Campaign
• Sophia Gurulé
• Decarceration Project
• Marie Ndiaye
• Jon Ben-Menachem

Online Reading and Resources:

• Carceral Capitalism
• The Answer is Not Reform, It's Defunding
• Prison Abolition FAQ
• Against Innocence: Race, Gender, and the politics of Safety
• Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Gilson Wilmore Might Change Your Mind
• Think Prison Abolition in America is Impossible? It Once Felt Inevitable.
• What Abolitionists Do
• Prisons, Policing, and Punishment
• What is the Innocence Project and How to Help
• Transform Harm Resource Hub
• Here’s How to End the School-to-Prison Pipeline
• Alternatives to Incarceration for People with Mental Illness
• Investing and Divesting Dollars in Prisons
• Shifting Resources from Youth Incarceration to Investing in Youth in their Communities
• The Geography of America's Dysfunctional & Racially Disparate Youth Incarceration Complex
• A collection of resources to learn more about the criminalization of survivors of gender violence and activist strategies to free them from Survived and Punished
• The Case for Prison Abolition
• Until We Reckon: Mass Incarceration, Violence & the Radical Possibilities of Restorative Justice
• Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation

COVID-19 and the Effect on People Who Are Incarcerated

• Covid-19, Decarceration, and Abolition (Video Part 1)
• As COVID-19 Cuts Deadly Path Through Indiana Prisons, Inmates Say Symptoms Ignored
• ‘Powder keg’ at Chuckawalla Valley State Prison with 110 cases of COVID-19 in two weeks
• Federal Prisons Will Strictly Isolate Inmates — But Is That Enough To Protect Them?
• As Coronavirus Spreads Through Prisons, We Must Release Those We Can
• Jalil Muntaqim Has Been In Prison For 50 Years & Now He’s Battling COVID-19
• An Update On What’s Happening Inside Rikers Island as Coronavirus Spreads
• Why Activists Are Pushing Back Against New York’s Plan to Have Prisoners Make Hand Sanitizer
• Free Them All for Public Health

Non-written Resources

• Beyond Prisons by Kim Wilson & Brian Sonenstein (prison abolition podcast)
• The Practices We Need: #metoo and Transformative Justice - How to Survive the End of the World (podcast episode feat. Mariame Kaba)
• Prison Abolition vs. Reform (podcast explaining the difference)
• Podcast playlist of podcasts discussing abolition

What is Transformative Justice and Restorative Justice?

• Transformative Justice, Explained
• Transformative Justice: A Brief Description
• What is Restorative Justice?

Toolkits & Handbooks:

• Instead of Prisons: A Handbook for Abolitionists
• The Little Book of Restorative Justice
• Critical Resistance Abolition Toolkit
• Creative Interventions: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence
• Restorative Justice Toolkit with Preventative Measures

Books to Read (as a start!):

• Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Davis
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
• Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators
• Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power
• The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities
• What About the Rapists: Anarchist Approaches to Crime and Justice
• Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side
• Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
• Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (not out until 2021 but Ruth Wilson Gilmore has GREAT writing all over the internet!)
• Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
• Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture
• Voices of African American Women in Prison by Paula C. Johnson