Law, Societies and Justice: Prisons, Police, and the Carceral State

Black and Pink
National prison abolitionist organization.

Critical Resistance
National organization that works to to dismantle the prison-industrial complex.

Community Justice Exchange 
Develops tactical interventions, organizing practices and tools to end all forms of criminalization, incarceration, surveillance, supervision, and detention.

Survived & Punished
National organizing project to end the criminalization of survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

National Bail Fund Network
Community bail and bond funds across the country.

Best Practices Guide for Setting Up a Legal Defense Fund
Addresses fundraising, eligibility, legal logistics, accountability, and more. 

So You Want to Court Watch? Guide by Community Justice Exchange
For organizers thinking about court watching as a strategy to dismantle the criminal legal or immigration systems. 

US Protest Law Tracker
 

King County Equity Now
A coalition of Black-led community-based organizations in King County.

Legal resources for people in prison in Washington
Compiled by Prison Policy Initiative.

The Washington Prison History Project
Primary sources on mass incarceration in Washington state and the Pacific Northwest.

Project NIA 
A grassroots organization that works to end incarceration of children and young adults by promoting restorative and transformative justice practices.

The Sentencing Project 
Produces research to promote reforms in sentencing policy, address unjust racial disparities and practices, and to advocate for alternatives to incarceration. 

Prison Policy Initiative
Produces research to expose the harm of mass criminalization and sparks advocacy campaigns. 

Abolition of Policing Workshop by Critical Resistance
Provides an understanding and overview of policing in the U.S.

#DefundThePolice Toolkit by Interrupting Criminalization Initiative 
From the Barnard Center for Research on Women.

A Social Media Toolkit for Organizing and Advocacy to End Mass Criminalization and Incarceration
Guidelines for using social media to share stories of injustice in order to build power.

Abolitionist Toolkit by Critical Resistance
For organizers working toward abolition and allies. 

Prison Divestment Toolkit by Enlace
Uses victories in Portland, Oregon as a case study.

Resource Guide: Prisons, Policing, and Punishment
Reading lists and more on Medium.com.

#8toAbolition
A resource hub for incorporating abolitionist demands into local organizing efforts around municipal, state, and federal policies.

Transformharm.org 
A resource hub about ending violence. Offers an introduction to transformative justice.

State Data by The Sentencing Project
A compilation of state-level criminal justice data from a variety of sources. 

Data Toolbox by Prison Policy Initiative
Includes national and state-level data, population data and other curated resources. 

Research Library by Prison Policy Initiative 
A curated database of empirical criminal justice research available online.

Policing Timeline by Critical Resistance
A historical overview of policing tracing the evolution of policing in the U.S. Timeline focus is 1845 to the present.

Local Police Budgets
Searchable database by the Action Center of Race & The Economy (ACRE)

Atlas of Surveillance
Repository of information on law enforcement surveillance technology. 

VIDEOS

Beyond The Prison Industrial Complex
with Ruth Wilson Gilmore.

Breaking Down the Prison Industrial Complex Video Project

Abolition in the Now: K Agbebiyi and Joshua Aiken
Hosted by Yale's Racial Capitalism and the Carceral State working group.

PODCASTS

Thinking about how to abolish prisons with Mariame Kaba

Bringing Down the New Jim Crow: A Radio Documentary Series
Series of radio documentaries explores the continuing struggle for racial justice in the U.S. during the era of mass incarceration.

Intersectionality Matters
Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and a leading scholar of critical race theory.

Beyond Prisons Podcast
A show on incarceration and prison abolition that elevates people directly impacted by the system.

People’s History Podcast - Women in Prison: How It Is With Us

This is Hell! The post-police budget 
Political scientist Alexander Kolokotronis on police abolition and participatory budgeting.

For The Wild Podcast - Jackie Wang on Carceral Capitalism

ZINES

A Community Compilation on Police Abolition