Towards Abolition: A Learning and Action Guide for Public Health

Logics of policing and prisons are mirrored in many facets of our society, including our public health systems and institutions. In order to best answer the calls by those most impacted we draw from abolitionist organizing and frameworks to end the role of policing, incarceration, and punishment in our health systems. This learning and action guide was developed to respond to the ask from people impacted by the criminal legal system that public health practitioners:-Be responsive to the negative health impacts of the criminal legal system -Change the ways in which public health systems collaborate with, mirror, and increase the scope and legitimacy of the criminal legal system -Use the public health platform to advocate for policy and programs that address root problems of health inequities and invest in true forms of public safety