Prison abolition movement
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The prison abolition movement is a loose network of groups and activists that seek to reduce or eliminate prisons and the prison system, and replace them with systems of rehabilitation that do not place a focus on punishment and government institutionalization.
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See also
- Convict lease system, abolished by Presidential order in 1942
- Emma Goldman
- Louk Hulsman
- Mentally ill people in United States jails and prisons
- Nils Christie
- Penal labor
- Restorative justice
- Thomas Mathiesen
- Transformative justice
- Pacifism
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