Imagining Border, Prison, and Police Abolition for Health Justice

Imagining Border, Prison, and Police Abolition for Health Justice
Ronica Mukerjee
There is an urgent need for an abolitionist framework to resist border, police, and prison violence. While prison, border, and police abolition have emerged as central planks among social movements in recent years, the ways that these carceral systems interact with bodies and health have often remained undiscussed. Healthcare workers have unwittingly normalized carceral violence as part of the landscape of health. This workshop will discuss the meaning of, strategies, and examples of abolition that we can use as seeds to grow the medicine and wellbeing we deserve.