Close prisons rather than try to fix them
Date: Thursday, 08 February, 2018Our Director Richard spoke about the prisons crisis at a meeting of the Friends of Le Monde Diplomatique earlier this week.Richard said that that 'the prisons crisis is...
View ArticleMajor conference on prison abolition in May 2019
Date: Thursday, 20 December, 2018The Centre for Crime and Justice Studies and the Harm & Evidence Research Collaborative at The Open University, in partnership with Professor Joe Sim of Liverpool...
View ArticleConference cancellation: Prison abolition in the UK
Date: Wednesday, 06 March, 2019We are saddened to announce that the conference, Prison Abolition in the UK, planned for 23 and 24 May, has been cancelled. Unfortunately, one of our conference partners...
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Getting out of the prisons crisis
By: Richard GarsideDate: Thursday, 25 April, 2019There are at least two ways of thinking about the prisons crisis and about what it would mean to get out the crisis.First, we can think about the prison...
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Prison violence and the limits of reform
By Richard GarsideThursday, 4 July 2019In May last year I was among more than a hundred organisational representatives who trooped over to the (unfortunately named given current events in Syria and...
View ArticlePunishment is the pandemic
Tuesday, 12 May 2020Our Chair of Trustees, Charlie Weinberg, has written a piece on the problems of punishment for the website of Abolition, the US-based journal of radical and insurgent politics.In...
View ArticleAbolitionism and decarceration: Our summer reading list
Friday, 31 July 2020As the summer holidays get underway, even if you're staying at home for your holiday, we thought you might be interested in reading our back catalogue of articles on prison...
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Close Holloway and then close all the large women's prisons
By Rona EpsteinThursday, 24 December 2015On 25 November 2015, the Justice Secretary Michael Gove announced that he was planning to close HMP Holloway. What a good idea!It chimes in well with the...
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Build communities, not prisons
By Deborah H Drake and David ScottThursday, 10 August 2017The prison industrial complex is large and growing.Prison building and expansion projects generate trade exhibitions, mail-order/Internet...
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The prisons crisis. Alternatives to incarceration
By Richard GarsideTuesday, 6 February 2018Download (PDF 1.31MB)Thank you for the invitation to speak this evening on the prison crisis. I admire the work and values of Le Monde Diplomatique. It is good...
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