I’ve gotten really distressed about the attempt to say that RJ is the alternative to the PIC or TJ is the alternative to the PIC. No, it’s not actually the alternative. It isn’t at all. It is an ideology, a framework, a political vision, a practice. All those things are true, and it’s simply a way to shift and transform our relationships to allow us to build the conditions under which we will no longer need prisons and surveillance and policing, and all these other things that are part of the PIC that we, as abolitionists, want to dismantle.
