The prison abolition movement is a network of groups and activists that seek to reduce or eliminate prisons and the prison system, and replace them with...

culminated in the abolition of American slavery through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Civil War in the United States from...

The police abolition movement is a political movement, mostly active in the United States, that advocates replacing policing with other systems of public...

nine of the continental colonies. Immediately following the abolition of slavery in the United States (and ratification of the 13th amendment), the slave...

In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War...

Abolitionism, or the abolitionist movement, is the movement to end slavery and liberate slaves around the world. The first country to fully outlaw slavery...

changing lives for the better through a combination of autobiography and academic examination. It is a core text in the prison abolition movement. Davis begins...

prisons," and that "Prison abolition is a commitment to a simple, powerful idea: prisons do not foster justice." Decarceration in the United States For-profit...

Abolitionism in the United Kingdom was the movement in the late 18th and early 19th centuries to end the practice of slavery, whether formal or informal...

Quakers in Pennsylvania. Prison building efforts in the United States came in three major waves. The first began during the Jacksonian Era and led to the widespread...

"From '20. and odd' to 10 million: the growth of the slave population in the United States". Slavery & Abolition. 41 (4): 840–855. doi:10.1080/0144039X...

over-represented in jail and prison populations in the United States relative to the general population. There are three times as many mentally ill people in jails...

In the United States, capital punishment (also known as the death penalty) is a legal penalty in 27 states, throughout the country at the federal level...

domination." A response to the prison industrial complex is the prison abolition movement. The goal of prison abolition is to end the prison industrial complex...

the time, the sector was still dominated by the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Australia opened its first private prison,...

between prison abolition and the abolition of slaves. The prison abolition movement, typically believed to be on the far left, view prisons as a racist...

enslaved people (United States) National Freedom Day Slave Trade Acts Slavery Abolition Act 1833 in the United Kingdom United States labor law 13th, a...

this era in the northern United States were strong advocates of reform. They were involved in the temperance movement and supported the abolition of slavery...

The history of the socialist movement in the United States spans a variety of tendencies, including anarchists, communists, democratic socialists, social...

attention away from the movement. In addition, the anti-gallows groups who were responsible for lobbying for abolition legislation were weak. The groups lacked...

to) the prison abolition movement. Authors and activists such as Angela Davis and Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who are best known for their prison abolition work...

the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and...

people in United States jails and prisons Penal Reform International Preservation of the Rights of Prisoners (PROP) Prison abolition movement Prison conditions...

The abolition of slavery occurred at different times in different countries. It frequently occurred sequentially in more than one stage – for example...

row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death. The term is also used...

In the United States, abortion is a divisive issue in politics and culture wars, though a majority of Americans support access to abortion. Abortion laws...

The 1970 Folsom Prison strike was a significant event for U.S. prison reform and protest. During the strike over 2,400 incarcerated individuals as the...

include prison abolition in Los Angeles and LGBTQ rights. Cullors integrates ideas from critical theory, as well as from social movements around the world...

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental...

The nature and power of organized labor in the United States is the outcome of historical tensions among counter-acting forces involving workplace rights...