The Prison Abolition Letter Writing Project
The prison abolition letter-writing project was started in 2018 as a part of Central Iowa DSA's Prison and Police Abolition Working Group. Anyone who aspires to live in a prison and police-free world is welcome to join us in our organizing.
The purpose of the letter-writing project is to build and maintain a solidarity network between people incarcerated in Iowa and their friends, family, and community members on the outside. Through this network, we are able to organize with our incarcerated comrades to uplift their voices and experiences, publicize issues they face, and work towards our collective liberation.
We meet monthly to write our pen-pals, collectively discuss requests and responses we receive, and organize other projects that further the cause of abolition. Currently, there are abolition letter-writing groups in Des Moines and Sioux City.
For more information, reach out to prisonabolitiondsm@gmail.com and/or follow @DSM_DSA on twitter.