Unmaking Prison Walls
Reacquainting ourselves with practices that made prisons more permeable can be a step toward ending mass incarceration.
9 posts in ‘public history’
Reacquainting ourselves with practices that made prisons more permeable can be a step toward ending mass incarceration.
How white, middle-class youth in the suburbs experienced the war on drugs is a largely untold chapter in the arc of mass incarceration.
A new book centers prisons in the history of U.S. empire, reminding us of the need for international solidarity in the fight for freedom.
Attica represents far more than a historic rebellion about prison reform. Its revolutionary abolitionist vision endures today.
How the peaceful takeover of Walpole prison in 1973 holds lessons for abolitionists today.
Carceral settings imprison an untold number of experts—outsiders on the inside who have much to teach us about mass incarceration.
The U.S. history of coerced prison work is older—and more northern—than its popular origin story tends to acknowledge.
In the history of a shuttered lockup for queer women in New York City, a reminder that incarceration has always been a form of social control.
Understanding the past of the Cook County Jail is understanding its present.