The People v. the Prison
California is discovering the hard way that you can’t leave decarceral reforms in the hands of prison officials.
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California is discovering the hard way that you can’t leave decarceral reforms in the hands of prison officials.
Connecting it to the fight for disability rights has helped activists in California to make exciting progress in their effort to end solitary confinement.
A close analysis of prison data can help us think concretely, and strategically, about the tradeoffs of different approaches to decarceration and prison closures.
Everyone is redeemable. For that reason, I won’t stop fighting for those people our governor and the legislature have left to die in our prisons.
Older New Yorkers are dying in state prison at an alarming rate. Once and for all, they need to come home to their families.