Renewing New Orleans
Anti-jail organizers scored important wins in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But their fight isn’t over.
Anti-jail organizers scored important wins in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But their fight isn’t over.
Stories of Black flight from enslavement continue to offer lessons for radically rethinking public safety beyond policing.
Unless Congress acts, funding for federal public defenders will take a serious hit, with disastrous consequences for the people they represent.
Life-without-parole sentences hit families especially hard. Yet they fight on, committed to their loved ones’ freedom.
In Illinois, ending money bond was our target. Pretrial freedom is our goal.
By helping non-incarcerated people to experience a human connection with people inside, volunteering can open a curtain in the mind.
Attica represents far more than a historic rebellion about prison reform. Its revolutionary abolitionist vision endures today.
In the criminal system, having your life constrained and restricted, even after your sentence is over, has become a fact of life.
The work of tearing down structures of harm while building the world we want can and must start small.
In prison, even learning about your own reproductive health is met with repression.
An incarcerated writer’s grievances against a sad new normal of censorship and mail obstruction in a Pennsylvania prison.
Society isn’t being done any favors keeping literature out of the hands of incarcerated people.
Censorship should not be the mechanism by which prisons ensure security or any other goal they purport to have.
Life in prison is hard. Transitioning back home through reentry shouldn’t be harder.
To truly provide justice for those with criminal records, we must question harmful binaries that separate “good” from “bad” immigrants.
The state spies upon and infiltrates social movements to keep people on guard, afraid, and second-guessing their every move.
Even among abolitionists, there's room for those who lack hope.
How the peaceful takeover of Walpole prison in 1973 holds lessons for abolitionists today.
Probation and parole in the United States don’t work. A longtime reformer and advocate has drawn a blueprint to end them.
No one should be made to give up their rights in exchange for being spared from prison.
Better research won’t get us out of our crisis of mass incarceration.
The art of knowing what we’re confronting and revealing who is being made invisible by the carceral state.
Erasing court costs and fines is a relatively small change that would have an outsize impact on those harmed by mass incarceration.
When slain by police, Black women and girls rarely garner the same communal outcry or political response as their fallen Black brothers.
Despite the stumbling blocks imposed by Republican state governments, abolition is happening in the South and in small towns, with organizing specially tailored to local needs.
In Atlanta politicians are pushing for a bigger jail they claim will be more humane. But health-care workers are pushing back.
There are many forms of resistance undertaken by relatives and friends of incarcerated people, but the system renders them invisible.
Decarceral ideas and essays that have moved our readers in the past year.
Acting within the criminal legal system cannot be the solution, on its own, to the existence of the carceral state.
As organizers in Illinois know well, it is necessary to engage with criminalizing institutions to better learn how to defeat them.