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From Crisis to Care: Ending the Health Harm of Women’s Prisons

WEBHuman Impact Partners, California Coalition for Women Prisons, along with Transgender, Gender-Variant and Intersex (TGI) Justice Project and Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) released this report on the harm and violence of …

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Fighting Imprisonment Overview – Critical Resistance

WEBSince our founding, CR has taken on successful campaigns, projects, and other efforts towards the abolition of imprisonment, including stopping the construction of new jails and prisons, fighting increased sentencing and working to reduce imprisonment, supporting demands led by imprisoned people to improve conditions, and organizing for the …

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Fighting Toxic Prisons: Restoring Land and Lives

WEBThe following is an interview with Craig Gilmore, Emily Posner, Sylvia Ryerson, Judah Schept and Panagioti Tsolkas. In 1999, Critical Resistance entered the campaign to fight the Delano II prison in California’s Central Valley. This was the first time that organizers for abolition and organizers in the environmental movement came together.

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Resources – Critical Resistance

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Annual Reports – Critical Resistance

WEB2017 Annual Report. 2017 Annual ReportDownload Critical Resistance is energized by the growing demand to move beyond the violence of imprisonment and policing and towards a society that centers health and self-determination. It’s….

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Resources for Abolishing Policing – Critical Resistance

WEBCritical Resistance’s Abolish Policing Organizer Toolkit. This 55 page toolkit includes CR’s definitions of policing and abolition, notes on key terms from a PIC abolitionist perspective, sample talking points on defunding policing, as well as multiple campaign tools for organizers to develop strong grassroots campaigns to resist and ultimately abolish policing.

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A REALISTIC VISION

WEBWHAT IS. Critical Resistance’s mission is to end the prison industrial complex (PIC). The PIC is a system that uses policing, courts, and imprisonment to “solve” problems. We don’t agree that we need the PIC to keep us safe. Instead, we work to build safe and healthy communities that do not depend on prisons and punishment.

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The Abolitionist Newspaper – Critical Resistance

WEBThe Abolitionist, launched in 2005, is a cross-wall, bilingual (English/Spanish) newspaper dedicated to the strategy and struggle of prison industrial complex (PIC) abolition that is published by Critical Resistance (CR).The Abolitionist is sent to thousands of people imprisoned in jails, prisons and detention centers in the US and some internationally, …

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Reimagine 109: Allocate 50% of AB 109 Funds to Community …

WEB4 ii See, e.g., CAL.PENAL CODE § 17.5 at § 17.5(a) (“(3) Criminal justice policies that rely on building and operating more prisons to address community safety concerns are not sustainable, and will not result in improved public safety.

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The People’s Report NO NEW JAIL IN SAN FRANCISCO

WEBSixty-five percent of imprisoned people experience substance use problems. The San Francisco Department of Public Health Jail Health Services Department reported in 2011 that throughout the 4 county jails, 75-80% of the population has substance use issues and 14% has significant mental health problems. Sheriff Mirkarimi claims that a new jail

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Defund OPD – Critical Resistance

WEBThrough the Defund OPD Coalition, CR Oakland’s anti-policing workgroup has been working to cut the Oakland Police Department’s budget by 50%, and to ensure those funds are reinvested in much needed community resources, services, and programs that keep us safe and healthy.. Over the past six months, Critical Resistance Oakland …

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