“Violence doesn’t happen in a vacuum. It is connected to the conditions that we live in, and we all participate in creating those conditions, and we all have a collective responsibility for ending violence, harm and abuse.” – Patrisse Cullors (Author of An Abolitionist’s Handbook)

“Unless researchers [and society as a whole] step back from the ideas that circulate within the domain of dominant prison discourse, we will become distracted by discussions of familial disfunction, childhood abuse, drug addiction, and alcoholism. While the spotlight is turned on the [so-called] personal failings of poor women and women of color, the political and economic interests that drive prison expansion remain in the shadows.” – Julia Sudbury (Editor of Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex)

“Transnational feminist practices assist us in unpacking the global prison by drawing our attention to the ways in which punishment regimes are shaped by global capitalism, dominant and subordinate patriarchies, and neocolonial racialized ideologies.” – Julia Sudbury (Editor of Global Lockdown: Race, Gender, and the Prison-Industrial Complex)