Reflections
Growing Up Post-Ferguson
I was the same age as Michael Brown when he was killed. The uprising set me on the path to abolition.
Reflections
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Yearning to Go Home
Life-without-parole sentences hit families especially hard. Yet they fight on, committed to their loved ones’ freedom.
Essay
A New Clarity
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.
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Reshaping Our Wanting
There is a place for desire in an abolitionist world, at least when desire is pleasure and love and freedom.
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Goodnight Jail
Based on 'Goodnight Moon', the 1947 bedtime classic by Margaret Wise Brown.
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Inquest: Year One
A reflection from the founding editors of Inquest on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the publication.
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Juneteenth and Black Liberation
Our government's history of oppression compels us to free those Black revolutionaries aging in our prisons.
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A Disruptive Innovation
Dismantling the machine that is mass incarceration requires all of us to think outside the box.
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When You Hear Me, You Hear Us
Incarcerated as children, four gifted poets share their art, their experiences, and themselves.
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A Failure of the Imagination
Like torture and the death penalty, mass incarceration is life-destroying. And indefensible.