What impact on the safety of incarcerated individuals does race, gender, and sexual orientation have?

Drawing on the lived experiences of survivors of harm and incarceration and personal experience, author Felicia Carbajal reflects on the correlation between growing up and living in an underserved community and being incarcerated. Harm to Healing examines how the language of abolition impacts the lack of safety and insecurity caused by mass incarceration and envisions a prison-free world.

An eye-opening examination of the criminal justice system, this book is ideal reading for students of Carceral Studies, Criminology, Gender Studies, Queer and LGBT+ Studies, Sociology, and Cultural Anthropology.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Abstract
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• 1 How It Began
  • 520 S. 11th
• 2 Gun Violence, A Night’s Impact
  • Cannabis for Queers
  • Oakland: The Town
  • A Night’s Impact
  • Life as a Crime Survivor
• 3 Criminal Justice in California and Beyond
  • Prisons and Jails as Part of a Larger Criminal Justice Issue in California and Beyond
  • Disparities and Harm
  • The Movement for Prison Abolition and Reform
• 4 Jail: A Walk on the Wild Side
  • Statistics
  • Drug-Related Offenses
  • Prostitution and Sex Work
  • Domestic Violence and Self-Defense
  • Property Crimes
  • Parole and Probation Violations
  • Transportation within Justice Institutions
• 5 A-Yard
  • I was W#72703
  • Diving Deeper with Statistics
• 6 Just a Bunch of Bad Girls
  • The Valley State Prison for Women, Chowchilla, California (Now Called the Valley State Prison for Men)
  • Just a Shy Girl’s Pain: A Mirror to Systemic Injustices
  • Limited Privilege
• 7 Reclaiming Agency: Unlearning What No Longer Serves
  • The Three Strikes Law
  • Intersectionality in Community
• 8 Maintaining Sanity in the “Free World”
  • Navigating the Not-so-Free World
  • The Pursuit of Sanity
  • Embracing Abolition
• 9 Walking into Wholeness
  • Chronos
  • Life Outside
  • Introduction to Abolition
  • Post-Incarceration to Present Day
• 10 Finding Redemption and Reward
  • Economic Opportunities and Ancestral Connection
  • The Founding of the Social Impact Center
• Recommended Assignments
  • Reflective Essay on Abolitionist Praxis
  • Community Action Project: Designing a Mutual Aid Toolkit
  • Storytelling Workshop: Sharing Narratives of Resilience and Resistance
• Bibliography
• Index

Felicia Carbajal is the Executive Director of LA-based The Social Impact Center and a formerly incarcerated person.