No Refuge
Many women escaping violence in their home countries find themselves trapped in the formal violence of the asylum system.
92 posts in ‘bookshelf’
Many women escaping violence in their home countries find themselves trapped in the formal violence of the asylum system.
A new anthology invites parents into the work of building a world without prisons.
Your right against self-incrimination is not safe in a criminal system that cares more about coercing convictions than about finding the truth.
The deification of whiteness and property has long legitimized the containment of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized peoples.
Placing criminal system tools in health-care providers’ hands causes irreparable damage to patient care and public trust.
'Excited delirium syndrome' is a tool the state invented to evade accountability whenever people of color die at the hands of police.
Electing progressive sheriffs only goes so far toward curbing the structural forces that sustain mass incarceration.
Abolition requires the world-building work of imagining all the many life-affirming alternatives to incarceration.
Ending prison slavery and giving fair wages to incarcerated workers are necessary steps on the pathway to justice.
An incarcerated writer and advocate in California implores: “Don’t waste my time trying to make it more comfortable for me in here.”
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.
Social work must be anti-carceral, against oppression, and committed to ending the systems, structures, and ideologies that cause people harm.
Even before the uprisings in Minneapolis, communities have been radically reimagining a world that doesn’t depend on policing.
A new book uses art to make the horrors of mass incarceration as visual, and visceral, as possible.
Mass incarceration rests on false narratives that carceral institutions themselves control. But some of us are fighting back.
When people need care, then the solution should be to get them care, not increase the risk of police violence.
A hopeful, practical new book shows how abolitionist organizers today are building the world anew.
I spit bars on Death Row to preserve the legacy of our people, what’s been done to us, and how we’ve fought back.
The D.A.R.E. program turned students into snitches, leading to the arrest and incarceration of friends and loved ones who used drugs.
After Hurricane Katrina, law enforcement criminalized sex work and Black women like never before. We fought back—and won.
Police academies socialize officers into an us-versus-them mentality—particularly when it comes to activists—and harden them to any attempts at reform.
Racialized and violent, modern U.S. warmaking is inextricably linked with our history of mass incarceration.
Reacquainting ourselves with practices that made prisons more permeable can be a step toward ending mass incarceration.
Policing on college campuses falls hardest on formerly incarcerated students, leaving them and the broader community unprotected.
So-called “smart” borders are just more sophisticated sites of racialized surveillance and violence. We need abolitionist tools to counter them.
How might we reimagine our rights and liberties in the absence of incarceration?
Taking criminal law out of immigration enforcement is a step toward safer, healthier communities. But is it enough?
Jails are everywhere, trapping people and resources belonging to communities. And everywhere, there are organizers contesting that reality.