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Bassichis, Morgan; Lee, Alexander; Spade, Dean. (2011). “Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement with Everything We’ve Got.” In Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Oakland: AK Press, 15–19, 32–37. PDF: Bassichis, Lee, and Spade, "Building an Abolitionist Trans and Queer Movement" Alternative source (PDF): https://www.deanspade.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Building-an-Abolitionist-Trans-Queer-Movement-With-Everything-Weve-Got.pdf


Buck, Marilyn. (2007). “The Effects of Repression on Women in Prison.” Ch. 11 in Warfare in the American Homeland: Policing and Prison in a Penal Democracy. Ed.Joy James. Durham: Duke University Press. 238–47.


Schmid, Anastazia. (2017). “Crafting the Perfect Woman: How Gynecology, Obstetrics and American Prisons Operate to Construct and Control Women.” Abolitionjournal.org, May 30.

Rebecca Onion. (2015). “The Pen: Inmates at America’s Oldest Women’s Prison Are Writing a History Of It—And Exploding The Myth Of Its Benevolent Founders.” Slate, March 22.


Christina Greene. (2015) “‘She Ain't No Rosa Parks’: The Joan Little Rape–Murder Case and Jim Crow Justice in the Post–Civil Rights South.” The Journal of African American History 100:3. 428-447.

(2022). "Case of Pieper Lewis". (Collection of newspaper articles).


Berger, Eric. (2022). "Shocking claims against former top officer lift lid

on US sexual abuse scandal." The Guardian, 9 December.


Richie, Beth E. (2012). “The Matrix: A Black Feminist Response. In Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation. New York and London: New York University Press, 125–56.

Hernández, Kelly Lytle. (2011). “Amnesty or Abolition?: Felons, illegals, and the case for a new abolition movement.” Boom: A Journal of California 1:4, 54–68.

Anna Hales, “Beyond Borders: How Principles of Prison Abolition Can Shape the Future of Immigration Reform,” 11 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 1415 (2021).


Recommended Supplementary Material:

Cora Currier, “Immigration Detention Is Part of Mass Incarceration: The Case for Abolishing ICE and Everything Else,” The Intercept 28 December 2019 https://theintercept.com/2019/12/28/book-review-immigration-detention-history-policy/


Center for Immigration Law and Policy (UCLA School of Law), “Immigration Prison: Hard Questions About Abolition.” https://youtu.be/ouVq3sv_YzI

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