Dr. SM Rodriguez retells histories of imprisoned revolutionary women alongside African philosophies that inform us of the nature of interconnected being, ethics and justice. Using a lens that critiques ‘corrective violence’, Dr Rodriguez argues that criminalisation stems from the colonial carceral legacy that attempts to sort racialised bodies into troubled sexes, with the aim of disciplining African behaviour to be more suitable for exploitation. Abolition, on the other hand, is a vision grounded in alternative modes of living.