5. Keep Your Community Safe, Abolish Your Local Prison

Listen to this episode from Pick Me Up, I'm Scared. on Spotify. 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