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 ==Prisons==
-What is generally referred to as the prison abolition movement is a movement that seeks to reduce or eliminate prisons and the prison system, and replace them with more humane and effective systems. This definition includes immediatists and gradualists. It tends to veil the fact that there are not many abolitionists in the strict sense of the term, i.e. who demand the immediate and complete elimination of imprisonment as a criminal sanction.
+There are three kind of initiatives based on a critical view of the prison, two of which can be seen as abolitionist in a wider sense of the term. They either want to
+*eliminate prisons as a form of punishment (abolitionists in the strict sense of the term) or
+*reduce the size of the prison system in order to - hopefully - phase it out in the long run (reductionists, gradualistis; abolitionists in the widest sense of the term) or
+*reform prisons to make them more humane and effective (prison reformers).
 Historically, Quakers were among the first advocates for alternatives to prison. Outside of religious groups, the small [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchist_Black_Cross Anarchist Black Cross] seeks the total abolishment of the prison system. Anarchists also oppose prisons because they house non-violent offenders (e.g., thieves and swindlers instead of just murderers and rapists), incarcerate mainly poor people and ethnic minorities, and do not generally rehabilitate criminals, in many cases making them worse.[citation needed] As a result, the prison abolition movement often is associated with humanistic socialism, anarchism and anti-authoritarianism.