Art and collective organizing can be radical healing practice.

Who We Are  

We are a collective of health care workers, advocates, lawyers, and frontline care providers who are concerned about the care of patients who are detained. We wanted to develop an educational tool for frontline workers to engage with abolitionist practices in healthcare and minimize harms when patients present to healthcare settings detained or accompanied by law enforcement. Our collective professional experiences include family medicine, emergency medicine, nursing, law, community organizing and policy-based advocacy.

Why This Work

Our current medical educational institutions do not sufficiently prepare or train frontline care providers to engage with the carceral state. We can’t ignore the fact that hospitals and healthcare are also carceral spaces. A future without police and prisons requires us to do our own work within these institutions. We wanted to disseminate this learning so that other frontline care providers can build a professional ethic of care in interactions with law enforcement in their workplaces.