Nurses for Police and Prison Abolition

On June 2, Dalhousie University School of Nursing Doctoral students Martha Paynter, Keisha Jefferies and Leah Carrier released a statement "Nurses for Police and Prison Abolition" in response to racist police brutality across Canada and the United States. SInce that time, the statement has been translated into French, Spanish and German, and signed 1000 times.

This morning, the statement was published in Public Health Nursing, a peer-reviewed journal edited by Dr. Patricia Kelly. 

"Nursing has a long history of complicity in exclusion, oppression, and exploitation of BIPOC. Changing that course requires abolitionist action, and the 2020 International Year of the Nurse and Midwife should be devoted to that change."

The public statement in four languages is accessible here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSerTjsPY_yWGhTpQeqZLErfQaUaPOb7iKnDggw1jk16cF1GTg/viewform

Please find the published article here.