Talk:Prison abolition

Did you know nomination

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. You can locate your hook here.No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Earth605 talk 12:21, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that despite similar evidence for harm as from recognized forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment, prison abolition is not embraced by most human rights organizations? Source: 10.1080/13642987.2021.1895766
  • ALT1: ... that the "basic moral orientation that human beings should not be kept in cages" is condemned as "naïve idealism"? Source: 2, see article
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Bothell, Washington

Converted from a redirect by Buidhe (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 261 past nominations.

(t · c) buidhe 08:14, 15 August 2025 (UTC).

• Article is long enough and was split and expanded today. Sourcing looks solid, hook facts are present and cited and both are interesting. No concerns from Earwig (only flagged direct quotes which are already attributed - no issue for me that the authors of this quote are not mentioned directly since the cited source lists like five names after that sentence) and QPQ is done. Approving ALT0; I think some attribution for "naive idealism" would be wise before that gets put on the main page in Wiki-voice. PCN02WPS (talk | contribs) 14:20, 15 August 2025 (UTC)

Organization and expansion of this article

This article is severely incomplete and has multiple issues.

It reads clunkily and has informal writing, it does not provide criticism to abolitionist views nor elucidates the history of the idea, it shows that certain individuals argue that 'new evidence' concludes abolitionism is preferable however the article doesn't disclose such claim, it has no splitting of topics by content, and is in general poorly organized and sketchy.

Prison abolitionism is, in my view, a popular topic, making this article one of considerable importance. The issues in here must be fixed. So I ask, how should this article be organized? CalmSandals (talk) 02:35, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

I just found out that Prison abolition movement in the United States is a thing. I will try to structure this article to the best of my ability since no one else is editing it at this moment. CalmSandals (talk) 13:39, 20 January 2026 (UTC)

I would support any article improvement, but I am not sure that your evaluation is correct, for example, the article already covers the criticism of abolition. A separate section for criticism would be inappropriate per wp:csection. (t · c) buIdhe 14:48, 20 January 2026 (UTC)