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The Care(ful) Work of Abolishing Prisons
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YES! Magazine - Issues
To end criminalization, policing, and prisons, we need to build up life-affirming practices, institutions, and infrastructure that generate care and safety.
We need to build care infrastructure on several levels: personal, interpersonal, and communal.
We think of these as concentric circles, with the built environment—our homes, public spaces, schools, etc.—as a container for all of them.
They aim to replace racial capitalism and the physical environment it has produced—shuttered buildings and vacant lots—with a nonexploitative local economy and safe public spaces.
Their housing policy centers on dismantling an archaic public housing system rife with discrimination against court-involved and formerly incarcerated people and their families.
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