"The object of penal reformers should be not to reform the prison system, but to abolish it." Fenner Brockway 1926
Prisons are failed institutions that do not work. They are places of pain and social control and are brutal, abusive and damaging to everyone who is incarcerated in them. Prisons are fundamentally flawed and all attempts to reform them have failed. We are committed to their abolition through: Exposing the reality of imprisonment today; Stopping the building of new prisons and the expansion of existing prisons; Highlighting the fact that prisons not only fail prisoners but also have a negative impact on families and friends, victims and survivors and the whole community; Campaigning to close existing prisons; Opposing the criminalisation of young people, working class and minority ethnic communities; Promoting radical alternatives to prison that focus on social and community welfare rather than punishment
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"we need to create productive conversations and develop activism among different groups. We need activists, of course, but also intellectuals and scholars, people from the labor movement, women's movement, prisoners, former prisoners. We need to learn how to talk to and with each other. We need to develop new vocabularies.......we have to recognize our own potential power"
Angela Davis
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