Active Practice — PIC
“Unlike the PIC’s violent and exploitative nature, PIC abolition calls on us to collectively build and re-define social safety networks and systems by centering the most marginalized while dismantling the violent institutions, practices, and policies of the PIC. Where the PIC uses violence to address harm created by deep inequities rooted in American imperialism, settler colonialism, and capitalism, PIC abolition asks us to creatively imagine a future without prisons and to act in the present to begin to create that world or pu‘uhonua.”’
—-Jen Jenkins
Pu’uhonua Not Prisons, A Manifesto | N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change
Read the above article, consider yr own solutions to the Prison Industrial Complex and address the following questions as posed by Native Abolitionists in Hawaii:
“Does the reform weaken the system’s power or means to jail, surveil, monitor, control, or otherwise punish people?
Does the reform challenge the size, scope, resources, or funding of the PIC?
Does the reform maintain protections for everyone and resist dividing people into categories of “deserving” and “undeserving”? Does the reform maintain or expand existing paths to freedom for all people?
Does the reform shrink parts of the PIC, industries that profit from the PIC, and/or the power of elected officials who sustain the PIC?”
