Homes Not Jails

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Homes Not Jails is "an autonomous group of individuals whose mission is to end homelessness and abolish the prison industrial complex."

They have, both overtly and covertly, occupied abandoned houses and turned them into housing for the homeless. They are concerned with rising poverty in the United States and the difficulty of low-income families to afford housing. They are also opposed to the present prison system in the United States, which currently holds over 2 million incarcerated persons, and statistically proven to have disproportionate populations of poor and minorities.

There are three chapters of Homes Not Jails: Boston, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.

This page is part of the Prison Abolition Guide.