Since our launch, Inquest has published a number of essay series, roundtables, and collections examining drivers of and solutions to our crisis of mass incarceration. Below, you’ll find them all.
Freedom Writers
This page collects the work of our incarcerated and formerly incarcerated authors.
Ferguson at Ten
How the police killing of Michael Brown a decade ago propelled the modern decarceral movement.
The Prosecutor Paradox
A book roundtable the role prosecutors can play in dismantling mass incarceration.
Carceral Geographies
Essays exploring how mass incarceration shapes, and is shaped by, our shared world and built spaces.
National Poetry Month 2024
Poems from incarcerated writers exploring their present realities—and imagining the future they’d like to see.
#Freethebooks
A collaboration with PEN America, aimed at the plight of carceral censorship and how people in prison are harmed by it.
Radical Acts of Justice
A roundtable of essays centered on Jocelyn Simonson’s book, Radical Acts of Justice: How Ordinary People Are Dismantling Mass Incarceration.
Abolition in Action
A collection of essays exploring how people are practicing abolition in their communities, in partnership with Truthout.
Decarceral Filmmaking
Essays spotlighting films and documentaries that have something to say about our crisis of mass incarceration.
CAPTIVE LABOR
A collection of essays at the intersection of labor and the carceral state, in partnership with LPE Blog.
Abolition Alchemy
A four-part series of essays examining the “alchemy” of incarcerated abolitionists and thinkers who are fighting to transform their struggle into freedom for all.
Beyond Gideon
A collection of essays examining how—or whether—public defenders can meaningfully contribute to the end of mass incarceration.
Incarceration and the Court
Essays examining the Supreme Court’s role in exacerbating our crisis of mass incarceration.
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