5. Keep Your Community Safe, Abolish Your Local Prison

In this episode, Madeline and Kenna talk about prison abolition, the 13th amendment, and who profits off of our fear! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/pickmeupimscared SOURCES: https://tinyurl.com/4wym9hep https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/e199912.htm https://www.history.com/news/bacons-rebellion-jamestown-colonial-america https://www.nps.gov/articles/quakerpetition.htm https://tinyurl.com/3wp555ux https://tinyurl.com/r7fa88hf https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-codes https://tinyurl.com/52vfwpr6 https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2020/01/16/percent-incarcerated/ https://www.afsc.org/story/facts-about-mass-incarceration-people-color-us https://www.sentencingproject.org/criminal-justice-facts/ https://tinyurl.com/mn5tudxp https://ccrjustice.org/torture-us-prisons https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-prisons-make-us-safer/ https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/safest-countries-in-the-world https://tinyurl.com/7svukb49 https://tinyurl.com/7ukjjs https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/what-is-prison-abolition/ https://www.themarshallproject.org/records/4766-prison-abolition http://criticalresistance.org/about/not-so-common-language/ https://tinyurl.com/y8s5493h https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/davisinterview.html https://tinyurl.com/xhk8uuk3 https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-is-prison-abolition-movement https://tinyurl.com/53cdn8x4 https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/231027228.pdf https://tinyurl.com/5fhnea7k https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/11/20/facts-about-crime-in-the-u-s/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/194213/crime-clearance-rate-by-type-in-the-us/ https://tinyurl.com/n3vewjp6 https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/fvv.pdf https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/csj-sjc/jsp-sjp/rp01_1-dr01_1/p5.html FURTHER READING: https://www.akpress.org/areprisonsobsolete.html https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1664-we-do-this-til-we-free-us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeQmVpnRMYE https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing