Abolitionist organizations in Massachusetts gathered outside of Boston’s HDR Inc. on Sept. 14 to protest the state’s plan to build a new $50 million women’s prison. HDR is the multi-billion dollar architecture and design firm hired to design and build the new prison. When their involvement was first announced, the National Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls and Families for Justice as Healing (FJAH), along with other allied groups, called for the company’s immediate withdrawal from all corrections contracts in an open letter to the firm.