Police Reform and/or Prison Abolition

The College can and will continue to support police reform and/or prison abolition when it is within faculty scholarship or students' curricular, co-curricular, and extra-curricular opportunities.

Examples of such engagement in 2021-2022 include the Fall 2021 Friend in Residence, Johnny Perez, the Director of the U.S. Prisons Program for the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, a student serving as a Philadelphia Justice and Equity Fellow with the Abolitionist Law Center over the summer and for the 2021-2022 year, and a talk from a scholar, Dr. Laura McTighe, on the topic of gendered criminalization and abolition feminism geographies. 

Students, faculty, and staff are engaged in this work through the Center for Peace & Global Citizenship (CPGC) as well as other departments that sponsor programming, and student organizations.