Back in January 2024, I tried to learn a little more on prison abolition and saved the articles I read on Notion. Since I'm trying to use Dreamwidth as an archive, I thought I'd put all the links here.

Title and Author	Date Read	Summary	Link
"What About the Rapists and Murderers?", by Angel Parker	January 15, 2024	Article trying to answer the question about prison abolition and violent crime - found this one frustrating as it offered no solutions to the issue at all.	https://medium.com/@amparker/what-about-the-rapists-and-murderers-7a81955b772c (web archive)
"Should police officers be able to get away with having sex with detainees?"	January 15, 2024	Stats: In 2015, after a year-long investigation, the Associated Press revealed that in the six-year period from 2009 to 2014, about 550 police officers had lost their badges for rape, sodomy and other types of sexual assault; and a further 440 for possession of child pornography and other sex crimes; or sexual misconduct such as propositioning citizens, sexting juveniles, or having consensual but prohibited sex while on duty.	https://dailytimes.com.pk/549072/549072/ (web archive)
"THE DANGEROUS FEW: TAKING SERIOUSLY PRISON ABOLITION AND ITS SKEPTICS", by Thomas Ward Frampton	January 23, 2024	Notes for this article, which is 40 pages long, under the cut.	https://harvardlawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/135-Harv.-L.-Rev.-2013.pdf (web archive)
"Can Prison Abolition Ever be Pragmatic?", by Nathan J Robinson	February 1, 2024	Prison abolition and prison reform can actually be reconciled fairly easily. The ultimate goal is prison abolition, because in a world without hatred and violence there would be no need for prisons, and the goal is a world without hatred and violence. In the interim, prisons must be made better and more humane.	https://transformharm.org/ab_resource/can-prison-abolition-ever-be-pragmatic/ (web archive)
"NYC to pay $125K to woman who accused two NYPD cops of rape in last-minute civil suit settlement", by John Annese	January 15, 2024	Connected to ‘Should police officers be able to get away with having sex with detainees?’ article.	https://dailytimes.com.pk/549072/549072/ (web archive)

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