Earlier this fall, the grassroots organization Care Not Cages won a decisive victory against the large new jail proposed for Monroe County. Ignoring financial warnings and public outcry, county officials were moving forward with selecting a greenfield site northwest of Bloomington for jail construction, until mobilization at a council meeting finally stopped them in their tracks. In this episode, we share two pieces on the struggle, with an eye towards next steps as well. As their name suggests, Care Not Cages means not only blocking carceral expansion but creating alternative approaches to preventing harm that don’t rely on police and prisons. What is required is a process of “substruction,” in which one future, based on racist violence and profit-seeking, is subverted, and another future, based in care and mutual aid, is constructed consciously, on at least the scale of Monroe County, if not the whole continent.