Abolition asks us to create a world in which we don’t need prisons. This is not naïve it means that abolitionists recognize that EVERYTHING has to change:  

The reality of the matter is that we are at a true crossroads, and while this is an opportunity for a better world, a more humane economy in which we recognize our interdependence with the earth and so many people’s love and labor, there is also a real possibility that this is the beginning (or really the continuation) of a dystopic future that so many films and books have been written about.