Month: January 2019

I was interviewed on the Theology and Socialism podcast, about the theology of prison abolition. Listen here!

One of the best ways to get involved in abolitionist work is to write letters to prisoners. Survived and Punished and the California Coalition for Women Prisoners offer these helpful guides for writing letters to incarcerated people.

Letter writing provides safety as well as emotional support for those imprisoned. It also lets advocates on the outside develop lasting friendships with incarcerated people.

Looking for someone to write to? Some possibilities:

• Black and Pink matches pen pals to LGBTQ prisoners
• the Death Row Support Project offers opportunities to write to prisoners on death row
• you can become a pen pal volunteer writing to immigrants in detention with Freedom for Immigrants
• Contact us and we will try to put you in touch with someone

Our site now features a Frequently Asked Questions page, addressing questions like “What about violent predators?” and “How do you address the role of the state laid out in Romans 13?”

Also check out a letter to the New Yorker about our work, published this week in response to their excellent piece on Hell.

I commend to you this excellent article:

A Jailbreak of the Imagination: Seeing Prisons for What They Are and Demanding Transformation

as well as this new book I just learned about,

And the Criminals with Him: Essays in Honor of Will D. Campbell and All the Reconciled.