Episode 4: Abolition Today

Homework

Don't worry! The word "homework" can create some stress, but no one is going to grade you. There is so much jam-packed into every TNQ episode that we want to give you as many resources as we can.

This week, Maya Schenwar, the Editor-in-Chief of Truthout and author of Locked Down Locked Out, discus the criminal justice system with us. This conversation doesn't center around statistics but instead revolves around two vital questions: 1. Is our current system working? 2. Is this the system we want? We were all stretched by this episode and we hope you will be too. 

 7 MOVIES

• 13th / Netflix 

• TIME: The Kalief Browder Documentary / Netflix 

• True Justice: Bryan Stevensons Fight for Equality 

• 16 Shots / Showtime 

• Bei Bei: a documentary 

• Discipline and Women in Prison / NPR

• Prison State / PBS

7 ARTICLES

• Is Prison Necessary? / The New York Times 

• The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration / The Atlantic 

• A System of Racial and Social Control / PBS

• Exploitation is the Ugly Sin of Immigration / PBS

• Mass Incarceration, Stress and Black Infant Mortality / Center for American Progress

• Understanding the School to Prison Pipeline / Thought Co

• Documenting the Hard Truths of Prison and Police / The Marshall Project 

7 Books 

• The New Jim Crow / Michelle Alexander 

• Just Mercy / Bryan Stevenson 

• Are Prisons Obsolete / Angela Davis 

• Locked Down Locked Out / Maya Schenwar 

• A Place to Stand / Jimmy Santiago Baca

• Color of Violence / INCITE! Anthology 

• Arrested Justice / Beth Ritchie  

Ready for More?

• EJI 

  The Equal Justice Initiative is committed to ending mass incarceration and excessive punishment in the United States, to challenging racial and economic injustice, and to protecting basic human rights for the most vulnerable people in American society.

• The Marshall Project 

  The Marshall Project is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that seeks to create and sustain a sense of national urgency about the U.S. criminal justice system. We achieve this through award-winning journalism, partnerships with other news outlets and public forums. In all of our work we strive to educate and enlarge the audience of people who care about the state of criminal justice.