“My decision to work toward prison abolition is a love story—one in which I seek to better love my community and the world and to create safer communities that can better love the younger version of myself.”— Josie Pickins, bitchmedia.org
“Yes, Makeda is home, but she has a mom and a daughter to help support, housing to find, food and medical bills to pay, a job to look for. All the responsibilities of middle age with none of the stability.”— Stephanie Clifford, marieclaire.com
“I made a decision to go to the White House when everyone was telling me, ‘Don’t go, your career will be over; you can’t step foot in there.’ And I was like, ‘It’s my reputation over someone’s life?’ Weigh that out. People talk shit about me all day long. It will just be another story about me versus…”— Kim Kardashian West, vogue.com
“They wouldn’t let me come out of solitary confinement. I was in there going crazy.”— Sonya Calico, buzzfeednews.com
“Once you accept that these people will one day be your neighbors, you might feel more invested in making sure they have the skills to get by on the outside.”— Dashka Slater, motherjones.com