On Resilience
In the criminal system, having your life constrained and restricted, even after your sentence is over, has become a fact of life.
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In the criminal system, having your life constrained and restricted, even after your sentence is over, has become a fact of life.
More people impacted by the criminal legal system can and should share their stories through fiction—and through those stories change minds and public policy.
Putting our ideas into practice—allowing ourselves to try, fail, and try again—will be how we move closer to a world without the harms of policing, prisons, and punishment.
A short film asks how we can offer justice for survivors of sexual violence without perpetuating the harms of mass incarceration.
The Court’s decision must not preempt questions about the role public defenders can play in ending mass incarceration.
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.
Librarians have a responsibility to everyone in their communities — including those who are incarcerated.
Simply targeting the corporations caging migrants and other people for profit won’t create a future without mass incarceration.
How pop culture helped turn police officers into rock stars — and Black folks into criminals.
The criminal legal system almost took my life from me. The anger that came after now fuels my life’s work.
Unless and until mass incarceration is ended, Roe v. Wade, and reproductive freedom writ large, will never be safe.
The carceral system dehumanizes not just the people we condemn, but also its massive workforce.