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“Behind These Walls” by Jeff Murphy

Check in: What’s something you do that makes you feel free or the last time you remember feeling free?

Read

American History, Race, and Prison | Vera Institute

Watch

Ashley Rubin: A brief history of prisons . | TED Talk

Do

• Letter Writing Ministry from Worthy Now

• The System: How American Criminal Justice Really Works | The Marshall Project

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• “When” by Ezra Williams
• Check Out: What has been your biggest learning or insight from this playlist?

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For Further Exploration:

• American Purgatory by Benjamin Weber (Book)

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (Book)

• How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith (Book)

• The True History of America's Private Prison Industry, TIME

• The need for abolitionist feminism—Impact Justice(Article)

• Full Reading List 2022—Abolitionist Futures

• A Reading List for Abolitionist Imagination and Practice—Asian American Writer's Workshop

• Dream.Org Justice Innovation Documentary (YouTube)

• Prison State (YouTube) (Full Documentary)—FRONTLINE