Flowers For Incarcerated Mothers is an art and garden project made in collaboration with artist jackie sumell and over two dozen mothers who are incarcerated–many of whom are serving life-sentences. Flowers For Incarcerated Mothers aims to bring visibility and support to the nearly 150,000 incarcerated mothers in the United States. The flowers are grown as part of the movement for abolition. The gardens, as sumell puts it, help people “imagine a landscape without prisons.” This would be a world in which punishment is not considered a solution for social problems, one where gender is not used as a tool of state violence and where no parents are in cages.

See visualizingabolition.ucsc.edu for more information.