THE PRISON ABOLITION INITIATIVE (PAI) ALIGNS THE FAR REACH OF TODAY'S ARTISTS WITH THE URGENCY AND SCALE OF AMERICA'S MASS INCARCERATION EPIDEMIC. THE INITIATIVE EXAMINES THE FUNDAMENTAL INEQUITY OF CASH BAIL, RACIAL DISPARITIES, AND LACK OF REENTRY SERVICES, AS WELL AS STRATEGIZING WAYS THAT ARTISTS AND OTHERS CAN BETTER " DISTURB THE PEACE."
Our Team
Rahsaan Thomas
Writer
Emile DeWeaver
Advisor
Samuel Brown
Advisor
Demetrius Buckley
Writer
Michael J. Moore
Writer
Wesley Williams
Writer
Richard Cabral
Executive Producer
Madison O'Leary
Founder | Director
Who to support
“All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. Artists are here to disturb the peace.”
- James Baldwin, The Harlem Ghetto
Continuing the conversation
with Patrisse Cullors and others at the 2020 SXSW
A series set to expose the inhumanity of mass incarceration through intimate portraiture pieces of artists and activists behind bars
Bringing experts, activists, artists and like-minded organizations together to create a coalition of abolitionists
ACTION STEPS
Outreach and engagement