Traditionally, Indigenous people in the Americas did not have prisons, rather the whole community responded to violations of community norms, seeking renewal instead of revenge. Let us probe the vision of Abolition.
Rev. Karen Van Fossan has extensive experience in political prisoner defense arising-out of the Water is Life fight back at Standing Rock ND ten years ago. Rev. Dr. Clyde Grubbs experience with building resistance to incarceration goes back to defending soldiers who were imprisoned for refusal to ship during the war against the people of Vietnam.