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Always a Mother
Maternal incarceration is but a phase for the people who experience it. It doesn’t define them.
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A Future for Susanville
The prison town of Susanville, in California, is about to lose its livelihood. Its economic survival presents a test for abolition.
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Train Up a Child
Many kids learn violent behaviors through intergenerational harm — and are then met with more harm by the state. Things don’t have to be this way.
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Captive Consumers
How government agencies and private companies trap and profit off incarcerated people and their loved ones.
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Atonement
The American penal system renders invisible the many people in its grip who are working hard to make amends.
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Home Rule
In weighing the future of thousands placed on home confinement during the pandemic, the government should prioritize where they are now: in their communities.
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Cages in the Coalfields
A growing carceral state has slowly replaced the coal industry in large swaths of Central Appalachia. But even here, a different future is possible.
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The Invisible Violence of Carceral Food
There's no such thing as a 'humane' eating environment in a penal system that inherently produces illness and death.
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Saving Austin
Emboldened reactionaries tried to get voters to super-fund our city’s police force. But we out-organized them, and they lost badly. Here’s how we did it.
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Mass Clemency
In the age of mass incarceration, the president of can and should lead the nation by freeing from prison as many people as possible.