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Other Organizing Projects
Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex
CARA organizes and is led by communities who are marginalized from the approach of strengthening the criminal justice system's response to sexual violence. We believe that this approach alienates people who are young, of color, queer, incarcerated, poor and/or have disabilities. As marginalized peoples, our own strategy for undermining rape culture cannot be one that reinforces the prison industrial complex — a system that targets us and only creates more violence and harassment for our communities. For this reason, CARA works to create community-based systems of accountability and support in order to build healthy relationships and communities free of both interpersonal violence and state violence.
In 2006, CARA wrote "Taking Risks: Implementing Grassroots Community Accountability Strategies," a paper written collectively by women of color about community accountability as a strategy to addressing sexual and domestic violence without the criminal justice system. It is published in Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology. Please contact us for more information!
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