Imagining A World Without Prisons Or Police

Published: Dec. 1, 2021, 5:30 a.m.

When Derecka Purnell was growing up, the police were a regular presence in her life. Years later, the lawyer, activist, and author of the new book, Becoming Abolitionists, realized that her vision of a just society was radically different from the world in which she'd been socialized.

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