The Importance of Institutionalization and Prison Abolition

The goal of the book, you know, in short, is really to connect to movements that haven't been really connected in this kind of way. And by the institutionalization for people who haven't kind of encountered that before, or just as a reminder, I mean three things. The closure of psychiatric facilities, but also institutions for people with intellectual developmental disability. So basically disability spaces of confinement. Second thing is where did the people end up after the closure, which is the movement of people into community living outside of the walls of institutions and psych hospitals. And then thirdly, to me, the institutionalization is a mindset. It's a social movement.