Freedom & Captivity is a collaborative, grassroots initiative to envision and promote restorative responses to harm, investments in community well-being, and safe, supported pathways to decarceration.

Freedom & Captivity celebrates 5 years of collaborative community-building abolitionist visioning! See our highlights reel below.

We are stepping back from new projects but will not stop fighting for a better future. With light and love!

What does a 21st century abolitionist Maine look like?

Freedom & Captivity invited Mainers to suggest words that capture their vision of abolition. Over a hundred participants, from South Penobscot to York, from Wilton to Herman, responded.