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A review by thecafeconlecheproject
The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences Working Toward Freedom by Erica Meiners, Alice Kim, Jill Petty
5.0
If you are a person that works in the legal or criminal justice field especially ( or just a living, breathing human) I HIGHLY recommend this book. Seriously its about $5 as an ebook on Haymarket Books & wayyy underpriced if you ask me in contrast to the amount of knowledge & passion that you’ll get from it.
It took me twice as long as it normally would take to read this book because of the amount of time I spent annotating & marveling at the amount of emotion, power, & inspiration this book emits.
This book is presented as a powerful collection of essays, poetry, personal reflections, art, love stories, & conversations.
At its core this work is a call for an abolitionist vision advocating for the dismantling of the institutions & practices that hurt us & to instead call for the willingness to imagine & work to create new freedoms that move beyond reformist limitations & build strong communities that don’t rely on the state violence that is inherent in systems of imprisonment & policing.
It took me twice as long as it normally would take to read this book because of the amount of time I spent annotating & marveling at the amount of emotion, power, & inspiration this book emits.
This book is presented as a powerful collection of essays, poetry, personal reflections, art, love stories, & conversations.
At its core this work is a call for an abolitionist vision advocating for the dismantling of the institutions & practices that hurt us & to instead call for the willingness to imagine & work to create new freedoms that move beyond reformist limitations & build strong communities that don’t rely on the state violence that is inherent in systems of imprisonment & policing.