Have you heard the term “prison abolitionist”? It sounds extreme to some, perhaps idealistic to others, but take a hard look at our current prison system in the U.S. and try and defend it. Two million people inside the system, more than any other democratic nation on earth. What if we didn’t have prisons as we know them today. Public defender and movement lawyer Olayemi Olurin explains how she came to her stance that prisons should not exist, and why the vision of a world without prisons is important to have.

Time and again, the prison system which has expanded exponentially in the past fifty years and destroyed so many communities, has proven that it’s not about crime and punishment but about creating second class citizenship. Time and again, police have proven themselves the enforcers of inequality by protecting the powerful and the wealthy and criminalizing poverty. So when do we say enough is enough and call it quits on the whole thing? Maybe it’s time to defund, divest and discard.

Some books to read if you’re curious to know more. Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Davis, and The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander.

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