Abolition Must Include Psychiatry – by Stella Akua Mensah and Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu
“Prison culture is not solvable by ‘funding the mental health system’ more robustly. The mental ‘health’ system is fundamentally carceral, meaning that it is one of the many kindred systems that function to contain and surveil people, take away their locus of control, isolate them from their communities, and limit their freedom. As it functions […]