there is no "fixing" the current system when it has roots in #historicalinjustices... the only solution is a bottom-up #reimagining
— Ethnic Studies 181AC (@PIC_Abolition) May 9, 2014

Professor Robinson's lectures featured the distinction between radical reform and reform reform. The former is a means to deconstruct and reimagine a world without prisons as part of a broader solution to negative structures built into our society. The latter merely represents a bandage to those structures, disguised, when it accepts and perpetuates more of the same.