Decriminalizing Migration
Taking criminal law out of immigration enforcement is a step toward safer, healthier communities. But is it enough?
Taking criminal law out of immigration enforcement is a step toward safer, healthier communities. But is it enough?
Jails are everywhere, trapping people and resources belonging to communities. And everywhere, there are organizers contesting that reality.
The oral histories of political prisoners shed light on their true character—and expose the darkness of the state.
Reparations for historic wrongs require concrete action, and that's no different for the untold harm caused by cannabis criminalization.
Activism must involve incarcerated people—but few outside advocates really understand the dangers and limitations that imprisoned organizers face.
A look at how decarceral, abolitionist filmmaking can help us envision new worlds.
As 2023 draws to a close, a look back at the books that informed, inspired, and empowered us to work for a world without mass incarceration.
How white, middle-class youth in the suburbs experienced the war on drugs is a largely untold chapter in the arc of mass incarceration.
The Gospel narrative places on Christians a moral burden to not turn away from the sexual vulnerability of incarcerated people today.
Black, Brown, Indigenous, disabled, and poor children and their families bear the brunt of a system that many now agree should be dismantled.
The crisis of youth incarceration won’t be solved by cynical attempts to co-opt the language of grassroots organizing.
A new book centers prisons in the history of U.S. empire, reminding us of the need for international solidarity in the fight for freedom.
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.