News and Comment
Topic
- #KILLTHEBILL
- #killthebill
- 1972
- Abolition
- Abolition & drugs
- Abolition Archive
- Abolition Revolution
- Abolition in the UK
- Abolitionist Digest
- Abolitionist Feminism
- Abolitionist Futures Reading List
- Anthony Lemard
- Anthony Mahoney
- Anti Colonial
- Anti Fascism
- Archives
- Art & Abolition
- Aviah Sarah Day
- Ball & Chain award
- Ball and Chain Award
- Barlinnie
- Barry Prosser
- Beware the reformers
- Black Lives Matter
- Boo
- Book Review
- Borders
- Brighton Alternatives to Prison
- Child Abuse
- Cleveland
- Comment
- Cops in Culture
- Crime Prevention
- Criminal Women
- Criminalisation
- Cynthia Jarrett
- Dangerousness
- Deaths in Custody
- Decriminalised Futures
- Defund the police
- Devolution
- Disability Justice
- Douglas Kepper
- End of RAP
- Everyday Abolition
- Families Outside in Glasgow
- Feminist Criminology
- Follow the money
- Frank Marritt
- GBV Series
Prisons have never been safe for women – removing trans people won’t change that
All violence in prison is unacceptable and we must address that, not demonise marginalised groups.
The Abolitionist No 12 (1982)
Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1982) No. 12
The Abolitionist No. 11 (1982)
Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1982) No. 11
The Abolitionist No 10 (1982)
Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1982) No. 10
The Nancy prison revolt and the French prison movement of 1971-1972
Fifty years ago prisoners in France’s Nancy prison protested - this is their story and how it related to the wider prisoners’ movement in France in the early 1970s
The Abolitionist No 9 (1981)
Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1981) No. 9
The Abolitionist No 8 (1981)
Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1981) No. 8
Abolition. Revolution. Now.
Book review of Abolition Revolution by Aviah Sarah Day and Shanice Octavia McBean
The Abolitionist No 7 (1981)
Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1981) No. 7
Another year, another reading group!
Our next reading group is happening. Join us every fortnight from 17th January 2023 online from 7:30-9pm UTC/GMT
The Abolitionist No. 6 (1980)
Read a full digital copy of this edition of Radical Alternative to Prison’s journal “The Abolitionist” (1980) No 6
Alternatives to Holloway (1972)
Alternatives to Hollow 1972 - by Radical Alternatives to Prison. Introduction by Rebecca Roberts.
The Abolitionist: Rewind Series
Join us for a series of events reflecting on articles from The Abolitionist magazine, published by Radical Alternatives to Prison from 1979-1987.
On diversion: Against carcerality and prohibition on the road to abolition
Drug diversion schemes appear as a beneficial alternative to the harms of drug policing and the war on drugs. In reality, they maintain and expand the police’s reach, power and legitimacy.