book review
Cages Without Borders
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.
5 posts in ‘slavery’
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.
Stories of Black flight from enslavement continue to offer lessons for radically rethinking public safety beyond policing.
The U.S. history of coerced prison work is older—and more northern—than its popular origin story tends to acknowledge.
Du Bois’s ‘Black Reconstruction’ is widely embraced by decarceral activists, but it celebrates state violence in a way few would now accept.
Human sacrifice, and nothing else, is the central problem that organizes the carceral geographies of the prison-industrial complex.