On December 11th, 2017, Inside-Outside Alliance (IOA) sent surveys in to every detainee in the Durham jail for over 30 days asking them questions about their concerns in the Jail and what they’d like to see IOA do about it.
Some responses to the survey were published on their website and included in the next issue of their newsletter, Feedback #37, which was sent into the jail, so that inmates could read each other's responses. Here are some of the responses published...
The prison abolition movement seeks to reduce and eliminate prisons and the wider carceral system. The movement seeks to replace the punitive justice system with alternative modes of dealing with issues of harm and injustice, such as through practices of restorative or transformative justice.
There are various tendencies within the prison abolition movement. These tendencies define themselves in various ways in distinction from prison reform, which is attempts to...