Abolition is a reorientation to the world. As Ruth Wilson Gilmore (2022) writes, "Abolition requires that we change one thing: everything". We understand this applies to all our institutions — not just prisons but the culture that brings prisons into being. To end the prison, we must end punishment and our vindictive desire for punishment. To end punishment, we must think about who we punish and why. To do that, we must think about housing and who doesn't have it and who is hassled by the police when they do not have it. We must think about land and our relation to it, and why settler colonialism sees land as something to extract from. We must think about power and control. And we must think about ourselves, how we benefit from these systems and how we want those benefits for ourselves.

— Abolitionist Intimacies by El Jones (Page 195)