Beyond Private Prisons
Simply targeting the corporations caging migrants and other people for profit won’t create a future without mass incarceration.
70 posts in ‘abolition’
Simply targeting the corporations caging migrants and other people for profit won’t create a future without mass incarceration.
The largest public health professional organization in the U.S. took a stand against carceral systems as fundamentally antithetical to public health. Here’s why that matters.
A growing carceral state has slowly replaced the coal industry in large swaths of Central Appalachia. But even here, a different future is possible.
There's no such thing as a 'humane' eating environment in a penal system that inherently produces illness and death.
How pop culture helped turn police officers into rock stars — and Black folks into criminals.
For those of us on the inside who believe in prison abolition by any means necessary, prison closures really mean prison closures. The state and some of my fellow prisoners…
On the 50th anniversary of a flashpoint of the American penal system, the cries of Attica still resonate today.
Dismantling the machine that is mass incarceration requires all of us to think outside the box.
The work of addressing harm without more prisons, police, and punitiveness is daunting. But it can be done. And it’s happening now.
The carceral system dehumanizes not just the people we condemn, but also its massive workforce.