Unraveling Carceral Feminism
The push to increase the state’s power to punish led to more incarceration but failed to create a more just society for victims of sexual violence.
The push to increase the state’s power to punish led to more incarceration but failed to create a more just society for victims of sexual violence.
The criminal legal system heaps more violence on victims of gender-based violence. Abolishing these structures is the only way to protect them.
Incarceration ahead of trial is fundamentally unjust—a form of punishment that makes it virtually impossible to fight for your freedom.
How radical lawyers played a key role standing up for survivors of the Attica uprising.
From Celes Tisdale's creative writing workshop with Attica Uprising survivors.
The experiences of Michael and Zoharah Simmons show that the fight against the carceral state is embedded in a larger project of building a just world.
Mass incarceration hasn’t ended in San Francisco, or anywhere else. To achieve that goal, governments would first have to devolve power to the communities it has harmed the most.
The rule was supposed to prevent prosecutors from hiding evidence. It hasn’t worked—but there’s a better way.
A close analysis of prison data can help us think concretely, and strategically, about the tradeoffs of different approaches to decarceration and prison closures.
Mexicans and Mexican Americans have long been targets of legal and extralegal violence by the police. Learning this history is a step toward ending abuses that persist to this day.
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We need new words and understandings — not only for crime, freedom, and responsibility, but also for history and spacetime — because it gets us closer to an abolitionist world.
The Visiting Room offers an intimate glimpse into the stories of Louisianians serving life without parole.
Far from a plan for decarceration, 'Barred' is nonetheless a trenchant look at how the criminal system fails the innocent and guilty alike.
It's high time we reconsider the power and promise of hunger strikes — without denying the tactic’s radical, disruptive, and self-violent character.
As 2022 draws to a close, we reflect on books that informed, inspired, and empowered us to envision a world without mass incarceration.
How we're helping journalists report more deeply, more precisely, and more carefully on the law, on the criminal system, and towards justice.
Millions rallied behind Adnan Syed, whom the system gave a second look. Many others serving extreme sentences deserve a second look, too.
Understanding the past of the Cook County Jail is understanding its present.
Pell grant restoration for incarcerated students is long overdue. But without infrastructure and safeguards, higher education, and true freedom, will remain elusive.
One might say incarcerated Muslims sue religiously. And true enough, a deep belief in justice is what moves them to resist oppression this way.
The movement to end police violence has a rich visual history. In Brooklyn, a collective of volunteers is doing its part to preserve it.
There is a place for desire in an abolitionist world, at least when desire is pleasure and love and freedom.
After years of working in the system, a reformer and believer in government gives up on probation and parole.
Misdemeanors are major sources of overcriminalization and punishment. Requiring jurors to screen them could shake up the system.
The carceral system criminalizes and retraumatizes survivors at every step. Dismantling these structures is the only way to end this violence.
For all its aesthetically pleasing attributes, Norway’s Halden Prison is still a prison for the men who must endure it.
Now more than ever, we need a clear understanding of the role of violence, trauma, and survivorship in our harm reduction practice.
The rise of pretrial e-carceration in San Francisco has created a new class of people for whom freedom remains elusive.
Based on 'Goodnight Moon', the 1947 bedtime classic by Margaret Wise Brown.