FREE THEM ALL and Other Abolitionist Thoughts

First things first. Free All Political Prisoners!! Secondly, this episode grants permission for all of us to dream and vision a world beyond policing and prisons. Prisons are American history, and we are yet to a place to recognize and dismantle that reality. Revolutionary Baddies hold a discussion surrounding the many many ways our capitalist determines who is punished and who are not. Through the decades of brainwashing propaganda regarding the benefits of police and prisons, combined with the capitalist opportunities of the private prison industry, plus our malapportioned government system has led to a recipe of injustice. Slavery still exists legally in the United States- which means our society should know and learn more about the many ways slavery still exists. At the same time, prison abolition is about visioning and implementing new systems and institutions that prioritize humanity. We deserve so much more.

Questions for our listeners

What  is a world without prisons?

Links for the show: Season 2. Episode 17

Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS

Why Crime Rates Are Falling Across The U.S.

The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

They Lied About “Black on Black Crime”. Here’s The REAL Cause and Solution

We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehesi Coates

The Experiment (2001)

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson by George Jackson

How the Attica Prison Uprising Started- And Why It Still Resonates Today

The 1994 Crime Bill and Beyond: How Federal Funding Shapes The Criminal Justice System

Durham Beyond Policing

Critical Resistance

A Soldier’s Story: Revolutionary Writings of a New Afrikan Amarchist

The Fertile Prison: Fidel Castro in Batista’s Jails by Mario Mencia

Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protest, and the Pursuit of Rachle by Derecka Purnell

WARTIME, Fall 2025 by Black Men Build

The US states with more places for incarceration than higher education