Abolition Scholarship

Forthcoming: ‘Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win’: U.S. Prisoners Collectively Resisting Against Systems of Death  (co-authored with Dr Colleen Hackett)

2019: The Prison System’s Revolving Door news article in Shepherd Express

2019: Staffing, Crowding and Death in the Wisconsin DOC (with Forum for Understanding Prisons)

2019: Unstable Security: Modified Lockdown and the Milwaukee Secure Detention Facility news article in Shepherd Express.

2018: ‘Freedom First’: Pursuing Abolition Through Supporting Prisoner Resistance (co-authored with Dr Colleen Hackett, Contemporary Anarchist Criminology: Against Authoritarianism and Punishment).

2018: Shifting Carceral Landscapes: Decarceration and the Reconfiguration of White Supremacy (co-authored with Dr Colleen Hackett, Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics).

2017: The Fire Inside (co-editor with Dr Colleen Hackett, The Fire Inside Collective).

2016: Abolition from the Inside Out: National Workstoppage in the US (co-presentation with Dr Colleen Hackett at the American Society of Criminology annual meeting, New Orleans, LA).

2016: Rebellion and Reprisals: How Outside Support Can Impact the Outcome of Prison Struggles (Mask Magazine).

2016: The History and Future of Prison Strikes and Solidarity (extended interview with Crimethinc Ex-Worker Podcast).

2016: Prison Slavery and Forced Labor: National Work Stoppage in the US (co-presentation with Dr Colleen Hackett at the International Conference on Penal Abolition annual meeting, Quito, Ecuador).

2016 Using an Anarchist Lens to Understand Prison Slavery and Resistance (co-presentation with Dr Colleen Hackett at the 1st annual Anarchism, Crime and Justice conference, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO).

2015: In Defense of Keith LaMar (Truthout).

2015: A Growing Resistance Movement in US Prisons Seeks to End Slavery and Torture Behind Bars (Toward Freedom)

2013-14: Tour with The Great Incarcerator, Part 2: The Shadow of Lucasville (documentary film by D Jones, co-presented with Imam Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Keith LaMar, Greg Curry and Jason Robb via telephone from Ohio State Penitentiary).

2013-14: Behind the Badge Tour (an abolitionist play written and performed by Turk, directed by Kate Pleuss, sometimes co-presented with Dr Colleen Hackett).

2013: An End to the “War on Drugs”? (co-presentation with Dr Colleen Hackett at the International Conference on Penal Abolition in Ottawa, Ontario).

2011: In the Belly Tour (An abolitionist play co-written and performed by Ben Turk, Kate Pleuss, and Weslie Coleman).