5.0
challenging hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

Just incredible. I don't know if this is the best place to start for people looking to get into PIC abolitionism (I would say as a true intro text, Angela Davis's Are Prisons Obsolete?< for a truly basic starting place about why prisons are bad,) but this tackles so many different topics and is such a clear call about how to organize and what the values we need to stick to as prison abolitionists. The section about transformative justice in particular is incredible, as as the examples of experiments that people are engaging in as alternatives to carceral structures. 

I really just want to thrust this book at every person I know and demand they read it, and I can only hope they get half as much out of it as I have. Will be a reread very soon, and many times after that.