A Secret Stash of Power
Now more than ever, we need a clear understanding of the role of violence, trauma, and survivorship in our harm reduction practice.
91 posts in ‘abolition’
Now more than ever, we need a clear understanding of the role of violence, trauma, and survivorship in our harm reduction practice.
Based on 'Goodnight Moon', the 1947 bedtime classic by Margaret Wise Brown.
Absent a sustained politics of solidarity, culture wars will continue to erode civil rights while criminalizing, surveilling, and punishing those who claim them
The Reagan administration’s entrenchment of a retaliatory immigration detention regime sowed seeds of resistance that persist to this day.
Why understanding restorative and transformative justice on their own terms, and at their best and worst, will help us build more of both.
In our imaginations, we need to break the equation of policing and public safety.
Immigrants fighting their deportations need lawyers. That doesn’t mean federally funding their defense should be a movement goal.
The legal institutions, processes, procedures, and actors implicated in the progression of criminal cases are simply beyond reform.
Looking back on 25 years of abolitionist feminism and organizing in California.
A reflection from the founding editors of Inquest on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the publication.
Our government's history of oppression compels us to free those Black revolutionaries aging in our prisons.
Beyond electing progressive prosecutors, decarceration requires an ambitious, multifaceted struggle at all levels of governance.
To stay true to their professed values, social workers must wholly disavow and remove themselves from systems of harm.
The roots of e-carceration run deep, and we need to articulate digital abolition as the solution.
A rare instance of state prisoners, state prison administrators, and the governor of California all publicly agreeing that a particular prison ought to be closed.
Fines and fees have a devastating effect on Black women and their communities. Abolishing them is the only option.
Human sacrifice, and nothing else, is the central problem that organizes the carceral geographies of the prison-industrial complex.
The prison town of Susanville, in California, is about to lose its livelihood. Its economic survival presents a test for abolition.
Mental health professionals call the police, work with the police, and act like the police. But even in our ranks, an abolitionist future is possible.
For many years, I believed that the child welfare system could be reformed, but no more. It needs to be abolished.
Co-opting the language of mental health and treatment, jail expansion is taking root in several cities and localities. But these are cages all the same.
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.