Abolition

• Contentious vote approves $1.1B plan to overhaul Fulton jail

  1.1 billion dollars for a jail. Imagine if that amount of money went towards things that would actually reduce the inmate population like housing, food security, and access to care and services.

• City of Cameras

  Atlanta is the most surveilled city in the United States.

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  those dollars could be better spent actually providing the kind of meaningful services to Atlantans that prevents “crime” from happening in the first place.

• Dear Decaturish – From the Olympics to World Cup, let’s not repeat our mistakes

  What impact might this building have if utilized instead for shelter, healthcare, food access, and community programming in place of punishment?

  Well written op-ed on the cruelty and ineffectiveness of incarcerating poverty in Atlanta.

• In reply to https://orangegnome.com/notes/2983

  Finished No More Police: A Case for Abolition.

  A great introduction to the ideas behind and goals for police and prison abolition. No matter your stance on abolition, this book provides a helpful context for understanding.

• Started No More Police: A Case for Abolition by Mariame Kaba and Andrea J. Ritchie.