A response to political and academic discourse that has emerged in support of a devolved criminal justice system in Cymru (Wales). It challenges, from an abolitionist perspective, arguments that present devolution as the solution to what is often presented as a criminal justice system that is both failing and at breaking point.

Irish Penal Abolition Network launch their three legged General Election Manisfesto for the upcoming elections to the Dáil in Dublin. Challenging the ‘Law & Order’ myths that more prisons will bring us safety, and connecting to what communities actually want and need- more social investment.

Despite the 2004 act, foxhunting has continued as if the ban did not exist. Illegal hunting, however, is just one strand to the package of harms that accompanies foxhunting, with overt and organised violence by hunts and their supporters regularly experienced by sabs and monitors.

We often talk about the mental health system being “broken”. Yet an abolitionist lens teaches us that the very idea of psychiatric institutionalisation centres around isolation and containment - not care.

Read Dalton’s reflections on visiting Bent Bars

protecting our streets: police are never the answer? Over the last week, Britain and Ireland have witnessed escalating violence incited by far-right groups. This can’t be used to increase police powers.

The parts of the state that provide welfare and the parts of the state that provide punishment are deeply intertwined and interdependent. This is especially paramount for Care Experienced people, who are the children of the state.

Abolitionists must actively show their solidarity with the Palestinian people, call for an immediate end to the Israeli military attacks, and urge the end of the occupation of Palestine as a key demand of the global abolitionist movement.

G. Ryan explores how we as Abolitionists can address the harms and suffering experienced by animals

John Moore provides a brief reflection on last month’s event: Activating the Archives: Prisons, Abolition and Histories of Resistance organised by Martha O’Carroll and Margaret Malloch from the Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research.

Fifty years ago prisoners in France’s Nancy prison protested - this is their story and how it related to the wider prisoners’ movement in France in the early 1970s

This article recalls the uprisings that occurred in British prisons fifty years ago and the role played by PROP - the prisoners’ union.

Abolishing Prevent must be part of campaigning against surveillance and policing more generally, as one manifestation of the wider logics through which they operate.

Black Resistance to British Policing is well written and jargon free. It is informed by activism and scholarship and makes an important contribution to ongoing anti-racist and abolitionist activity.

The state could maintain its power through direct military oppression but, with a strategically deployed police force and the cultivation of a consenting public, it doesn’t need to.

Article by Rohan Rice drawing attention to the neo-liberal austerity measures already taken in relation to police funding that resulted in privatisation. Arguing that abolition of the police, rather than defunding, should be our demand

The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill will provide the legal mechanism for charities – including Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) – to operate prisons for the first time in England and Wales.