Incarcerated people are eligible for Pell Grants again—but will prisons actually allow us to flourish as college students?

White civilians often spontaneously cooperate in acts of racial hatred. It’s a web of racist solidarity that Black people know all too well.

Nuclear abolitionists in the Plowshares movement have been imprisoned for bringing attention to the fact that nuclear weapons are immoral and illegal under international law.

Domestic violence survivors shouldn’t have to survive police violence, too. It is time to follow the evidence to interventions that actually work.

A decade of victimization landed a Harlem kid in prison. More than three decades later, he has not allowed prison to define his life story.

Electing progressive sheriffs only goes so far toward curbing the structural forces that sustain mass incarceration.

The sweeping conspiracy and terrorism indictment of Stop Cop City activists reveals the new playbook for state suppression of protest. But we can still win.

A transnational approach to abolition brings a new appreciation for community—both broader and narrower than the nation-state—as the site for care, justice, and democratic self-governance.

I kept my promise to break bread with my friend Dobie one last time, right before the state of Louisiana put him to death.

What does genuine safety look like? And what will it take to prioritize it rather than simply managing inequality and other injustices?

Participatory defense gives families and communities an opportunity to protect their own in courtroom spaces that have long robbed them of power.

Defund gives us a platform and pathway to reimagine a society with less police, more care, and services that meet the needs of all.

A hopeful, practical new book shows how abolitionist organizers today are building the world anew.

Mass incarceration rests on false narratives that carceral institutions themselves control. But some of us are fighting back.