Professionalization will not make immigration policing less violent. It will only increase its capacity, authority, and scope.

As an incarcerated mother, I have fought to remain in my children’s lives. I’ve done everything I could—and it still wasn’t enough.

Trump’s allies incite moral panic about shrinking white families, even as the state dismantles families of color—a paradox rooted in slavery and eugenics.

As shuttered jails and prisons become luxury venues, a growing movement is calling for community-led alternatives that honor the sites’ violent histories.

Making incarceration profitable—for both the state and corporations—generates untold hardship not only for incarcerated people but also for their families and communities.

In Texas, when someone makes parole, they will only be released once they have an approved home. Many of us have nowhere to go, and no one to help us find somewhere.

In prison, a cancer diagnosis might as well be a death sentence.

Decades of policy failures, including a culture of impunity for correctional officers, have eroded many of the gains that the Attica uprising’s incarcerated leaders fought and died to secure.

When parole boards are allowed to give the original crime more weight than proof of change, they become an absurdist theater of foregone conclusions.

The criminal legal system aims to send a message by massively overcharging him: it will defend racial capitalism above all else.

In ‘Enemy Feminisms,’ philosopher Sophie Lewis engages with the feminism of racists, colonizers, fascists, cops, and jailers to better understand what a truly liberatory politics needs to look like.

Providing hospital inpatients who use drugs with safe ways to do so is a critical part of what it means to “do no harm.”

Drug diversion programs are hyped by reformists as alternatives to prison—but they function just like punishment and people often end up incarcerated anyway.

Incarcerated people accrue debt for nearly all of their medical care. This makes a mockery of their right to health care—and saddles them with devastating debt upon release.

A new memoir details how Calvin Duncan became one of the nation’s foremost experts in post-conviction relief, helping hundreds incarcerated in Louisiana to fight for their rights, even as he sought his own freedom.

ShotSpotter has leveraged gun violence into a multimillion-dollar business that promises safety but delivers only increased policing and drain on the public’s resources.

A decade of increasingly sexphobic lawmaking has left sex workers worse off, unable to keep themselves safe and more likely to be victims of police violence.

The sweeping conspiracy and terrorism indictment of Stop Cop City activists reveals the new playbook for state suppression of protest. But we can still win.

Crimes committed because of financial hardship are a form of labor and should not be subject to criminal legal punishment.

After Jason Salters was violently attacked by NYPD officers simply for doing his job, he discovered how little accountability exists for non-fatal incidents of police violence.

A recent book unveils the shockingly long history of for-profit prisons—and the equally long history of incarcerated people demanding compensation for their exploited labor.

An incarcerated writer and advocate in California implores: “Don’t waste my time trying to make it more comfortable for me in here.”

Ending prison slavery and giving fair wages to incarcerated workers are necessary steps on the pathway to justice.

Abolition requires the world-building work of imagining all the many life-affirming alternatives to incarceration.