Documentaries
13th (Netflix)
When They See Us (Netflix)

Books
Are Prisons Obsolete – Angela Davis 
Women, Race and Class – Angela Davis

(More!) Reading lists
the southeast asian anti-racism toolkit
Antiracism Resources for White-led Organizations
Antiracism resources for Singaporeans
The Marshall Project: Articles on the US criminal justice system

By Episode

We Need to Talk: The Prison-Industrial Complex

  • Angela Davis (Women, Race & Class)
  • 13th (Documentary)
  • The Kalief Browder Story (Documentary)
  • Just Mercy (Book/Movie)
  • So you want to talk about race (Book)
  • https://time.com/5405158/the-true-history-of-americas-private-prison-industry/ 
  • https://www.history.com/topics/crime/the-war-on-drugs
  • https://www.sentencingproject.org/publications/un-report-on-racial-disparities/
  • https://www.aclu.org/other/drug-war-new-jim-crow
  • https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/amendmentxiii
  • https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/gilmoreprisonslavery.html
  • https://www.raceforward.org/videos/systemic-racism
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/24/upshot/how-redlinings-racist-effects-lasted-for-decades.html
  • https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/redlining.asp
  • https://www.howard.edu/library/reference/guides/reconstructionera/
  • https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/19/magazine/history-slavery-smithsonian.html
  • https://eji.org

We Need to Talk: Abolish the Police?

  • On legal punishment: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/legal-punishment/  
  • Ruth Wilson Gilmore on the case for abolition: https://theintercept.com/2020/06/10/ruth-wilson-gilmore-makes-the-case-for-abolition/
  • Broken Windows theory: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideastour/archive/windows.htm
  • On the creeping expansion of regulation: 
  • https://www.aclu.org/issues/juvenile-justice/school-prison-pipeline/school-prison-pipeline-infographic 
  • https://www.aclu.org/issues/juvenile-justice/school-prison-pipeline/bullies-blue-problem-school-policing-infographic
  • https://www.equalrightstrust.org/ertdocumentbank/ERR8_Brenda_Parkes.pdf
  • Implicit bias training doesn’t change police behaviour: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/implicit-bias-training-doesnt-actually-change-police-behavior_n_5ee28fc3c5b60b32f010ed48 
  • Washington v Davis: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/07/washington-v-davis-supreme-court-systemic-racism.html
  • https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/12/opinion/sunday/floyd-abolish-defund-police.html
  • #8cantwait proposals: https://www.gq.com/story/deray-mckesson-interview-8-cant-wait
  • Don’t abolish the police, reform them: https://thebulwark.com/dont-abolish-the-police-reform-them/
  • https://bostonreview.net/race-politics-law-justice/alex-vitale-scott-casleton-problem-isnt-just-police%E2%80%94its-politics