How can libraries best serve incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people? How can libraries support alternatives to policing, imprisonment, criminalization, and disenfranchisement? What can libraries do to oppose school-to-prison pipelines, for-profit policing and prisons, and other forms of state violence?
Anastasi, Katy. "Abolitionist De-Escalation and the Library." Virtual poster session, 2020.
Archiving Abolition Podcast (Interference Archive)
Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarceration. ed. Alison Clemens and Jessica Farrell, CLIR, January 2025.
Balzer, Cass. “Rethinking Police Presence.” American Libraries Magazine, July 8, 2020.
"A Call for Ivy+ Libraries to Divest from Police and Prisons and Invest in Life-Giving Resources." October 28, 2020.
Clark, I. J. “Public libraries, police and the normalisation of surveillance.” Infoism, 24 August, 2016.
Dapier, Jarrett, and Knox, Emily. “When Not to Call the Cops: A Plea to Protect Black Patrons.” American Libraries Magazine, July 8, 2020.
Liberation Library (Chicago)
Library Freedom Project Statement on Library Divestment from Police
Police and Prison Abolition 101 Syllabus (Autostraddle)
Prison Education Program List (Progressive Librarians Guild)
Prisons and Publics: Outreach, Library Journal, 17 February 2017.
Prisons, Policing, and Punishment: Resource Guide by Micah Herskind
Safe OUTside the System: The SOS Collective: "an anti-violence program led by and for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans, and Gender Non Conforming people of color. We are devoted to challenging hate and police violence by using community based strategies rather than relying on the police."
Women's Prison Book Project (Minneapolis)
X Books (Georgia)
