Placing criminal system tools in health-care providers’ hands causes irreparable damage to patient care and public trust.

Ahead of the election, immigrants’ rights advocates are working hard to be ready, no matter who wins.

Should advocates looking to unwind our nation’s punitive excesses engage a Supreme Court that set them in motion?

Electing progressive sheriffs only goes so far toward curbing the structural forces that sustain mass incarceration.

The push by Atlanta and other cities to build large police training facilities follows on a long history of armories as both symbols and manifestations of the state’s power.

‘Excited delirium syndrome’ is a tool the state invented to evade accountability whenever people of color die at the hands of police.

I kept my promise to break bread with my friend Dobie one last time, right before the state of Louisiana put him to death.

What does genuine safety look like? And what will it take to prioritize it rather than simply managing inequality and other injustices?

Participatory defense gives families and communities an opportunity to protect their own in courtroom spaces that have long robbed them of power.

Defund gives us a platform and pathway to reimagine a society with less police, more care, and services that meet the needs of all.

A hopeful, practical new book shows how abolitionist organizers today are building the world anew.

Mass incarceration rests on false narratives that carceral institutions themselves control. But some of us are fighting back.

Jails are everywhere, trapping people and resources belonging to communities. And everywhere, there are organizers contesting that reality.

The D.A.R.E. program turned students into snitches, leading to the arrest and incarceration of friends and loved ones who used drugs.

The oral histories of political prisoners shed light on their true character—and expose the darkness of the state.