The People v. the Prison
California is discovering the hard way that you can’t leave decarceral reforms in the hands of prison officials.
23 posts in ‘conditions of confinement’
California is discovering the hard way that you can’t leave decarceral reforms in the hands of prison officials.
Once a person is imprisoned, indigent defense stops. But the gravity of mass incarceration demands legal representation to the very end.
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.”
The administrative remedy process is a roadblock to challenging inhumane prison conditions. With the help of advocates, people in prison are fighting back.
There's no aging with dignity for people serving extreme sentences. Freeing them is only a start to a deeper paradigm shift.
Attica represents far more than a historic rebellion about prison reform. Its revolutionary abolitionist vision endures today.
In Atlanta politicians are pushing for a bigger jail they claim will be more humane. But health-care workers are pushing back.
How organizing workers in immigrant detention can serve as a foundation for abolition and liberation for all.
How Martin Sostre’s ‘single act of resistance’ stood for a broader struggle for bodily autonomy and collective liberation.
When the state of Virginia starved them, the author and his incarcerated comrades banded together to gain recognition of their right as citizens to access the courts.
How radical lawyers played a key role standing up for survivors of the Attica uprising.
It's high time we reconsider the power and promise of hunger strikes — without denying the tactic’s radical, disruptive, and self-violent character.
One might say incarcerated Muslims sue religiously. And true enough, a deep belief in justice is what moves them to resist oppression this way.
Looking back on 25 years of abolitionist feminism and organizing in California.
New Orleans’ newest jailer won’t get us out of our crisis of mass incarceration. But her election still matters as we build a safer, healthier community.
Practicing correctional medicine is fundamentally an exercise in harm reduction. And it’s no match for freedom itself.
The criminal legal system almost took my life from me. The anger that came after now fuels my life’s work.
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…
As demands grow louder for decarcerating and shutting down New York City’s deadly jail complex, judges and prosecutors have escaped accountability. But they’re the ones driving the crisis.
Unless and until mass incarceration is ended, Roe v. Wade, and reproductive freedom writ large, will never be safe.
On the 50th anniversary of a flashpoint of the American penal system, the cries of Attica still resonate today.
Quickly, legally, and unilaterally, the Biden administration could easily free tens of thousands trapped in ICE detention. Whether it wants to is another story.