1970’s

• the problem of prisons (david greenberg, 1970)

• the folsom prisoners manifesto of demands (folsom prisoners, 1970)

• the attica prisoners manifesto of demands (attica prisoners rebellion, 1971)

• if they come in the morning ruchell magee, the soledad brothers and other political prisoners (angela y. davis, 1971)

• prison, where is thy victory? (huey p. newton, 1971)

• women in prison: how it is with us (assata shakur, 1978)

1990’s

• from the prison of slavery to the slavery of prison (angela davis & joy james, 1998)

• industry of fear (mumia abu-jamal, 1998)

• why transformative justice? (ruth morris, 1999)

2000’s

• critical resistance to the prison-industrial complex (various authors, 2000)

• transatlantic visions: resisting the globalization of mass incarceration (julia sadbury, 2000)

• the political logic of the non-profit industrial complex (dylan rodríguez, 2007)

2010’s

• think rethink: accountable communities (connie burke, 2011)

• creative interventions toolkit (creative interventions, 2012)

• the road to abolition series (truthout, 2013-present)

• how to stop a jail in your town (c.u.r.b., 2013)

• black boys viewed as older, less innocent than whites (a.s.a., 2014)

• criminalizing motherhood (victoria law, 2014)

• summer heat (mariame kaba, 2015)

• involuntary hospitalization of drug users is bad policy (susan sered, 2015)

• the school-to-prison pipeline, explained (libby nelson and dara lind, 2015)

• the people’s report (critical resistance, 2015)

• a jailbreak of the imagination (mariame kaba & kelly hayes, 2018)

• black liberation and the abolition of the prison industrial complex (rachel herzing, 2016)

• care not cages zine (no new jails los angeles, 2016)

• build justice not jails (no new jails san francisco, 2016)

• 8 steps to a jail-free san francisco (no new jails san francisco, 2016)

• decriminalize sex work to protect transgender lives (national center for transgender equality, 2016)

• prison abolition argument chart (dean spade, 2017)

• what abolitionists do (dan berger, mariame kaba, david stein, 2017)

• unintended consequences of expanded mandatory reporting laws (mical raz, 2017)

• foster care as punishment: the new reality of ‘jane crow’ (stephanie clifford & jessica silver-greenberg, 2017)

• towards the horizon of abolition (mariame kaba & john duda, 2017)

• whose security is it anyway? (lara brooks and mariame kaba, 2017)

• towards the abolition of imprisonment (critical resistance, 2018)

• the problem with probation (tara gamboa-eastman, 2018)

• the endless punishment of civil commitment (guy hamilton-smith, 2018)

• the criminalization of homelessness: explained (bidish sarma, jessica brand, 2018)

• think prison abolition in america is impossible? (joshua dubler & vincent lloyd, 2018)

• from carceral feminism to transformative justice (mimi e. kim, 2018)

• prisoner writings on prison abolition (empty cages collective and incarcerated workers organizing committee, 2018)

• prison strike 2018 demands (incarcerated workers organizing committee, 2018)

• reimagining prisons report (vera, 2018)

• the case for abolition (ruth wilson gilmore, 2019)

• mass shootings, militarism and policing are chapters in the same manifesto (derecka purnell, 2019)

• is prison necessary? (ruth wilson gilmore, 2019)

• close rikers now, we keep us safe (no new jails nyc, 2019)

• history of feminist anti-prison activism (emily l. thuma, 2019)

2020’s

• our communities, our solutions (critical resistance, 2020)

• defund police toolkit (interrupting criminalization, 2020)

• a guide to reviewing and changing the police budget in your community (community resource hub, 2020)

• defund police, rebuild our communities (dream defenders, 2020)

• we keep each other safe (forward together, 2020)

• so you’re thinking about becoming an abolitionist (mariame kaba, 2020)

• turning towards each other (jovida ross & weyam ghadbian, 2020)

• prison abolition faq (k. agbebiyi, 2020)

• from one struggle to another: lessons from the first abolition (mumia abu-jamal, 2020)

• abolitionist policy changes to demand from your city officials (8toabolition, 2020)

• why arguments against abolition inevitably fail (angela y. davis, 2020)

• airbrushing revolution for the sake of abolition (joy james, 2020)

• my father deserves to be free (russell ‘maroon’ shoatz, jr., 2020)

• ruth wilson gilmore makes the case for abolition (intercept, 2020)

• reforms are the masters tools (dereka purnell, 2020)

• the role of police in gentrification (brenden beck, 2020)

• why involuntary psychiatric medicine is not the alternative to prisons (madqueer, 2020)

• prolonged solitary confinement amounts to psychological torture (united nations, 2020)

• abolition for the people (compilation) (colin kaepernick et al., 2020)

• community safety for all: congregational toolkit (showing up for racial justice, 2020)

• demands for supporting prisoners in pandemic (beyond prisons, 2020)

• harm reduction guided by the goal of the abolition of prisons and capitalism (ann hansen, 2021)

• on the road to freedom (critical resistance and community justice exchange, 2021)

• the people’s plan for prison closure (c.u.r.b., 2021)

• what about the rapists? (mariame kaba and eva nagao, 2021)

• abolition: how we keep us safe (abolition action, 2021)