

We envision communities built upon strong relations of trust equipped with the skills to handle conflict with care while collectively rejecting systems of surveillance, control, and punitive punishment that have caused multi-generational suffering on a global scale. We prioritize being in relation with one another in life-affirming ways, which includes holding people accountable when harm has been caused, being careful to not reproduce the anti-communal and anti-survivor dynamics that characterize the prison-industrial complex.
We are Humanities behind bars.
Our MISSION STATEMENT
HBB's mission is to build an alternative world that ends systems of oppression and carceral punishment and works to create healthy, resourceful, and resilient communities bound together by extensive care networks. We seek to center the voices, visions, and liberation of those who have been intentionally targeted by the carceral system in imagining what communities can achieve and how they operate independently. More specifically, we understand our work as being rooted in the rich and entangled historical contributions of radical Black and Indigenous feminist thought and praxis.

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