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Hugh Ryan’s The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison makes a compelling case for abolition as a central part of queer politics.
In his book The Women s House of Detention, Hugh Ryan writes about the New York City prison and the role it played in the gay rights movement of the 60s, including the 1969 Stonewall Uprising.