"Prison abolition had to be accompanied by the creation of an array of social institutions that would begin to solve the social problems that set people on the track to prison...

We would not be looking for prisonlike substitutes for the prison, such as house arrest safeguarded by electronic surveillance bracelets. Rather, (...) we would try to envision a continuum of alternatives to imprisonment —demilitarization of schools, revitalization of education at all levels, a health system that provides free physical and mental care to all, and a justice system based on reparation and reconciliation rather than retribution and vengeance." --- Angela Davis