Juneteenth and Black Liberation
Our government's history of oppression compels us to free those Black revolutionaries aging in our prisons.
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Our government's history of oppression compels us to free those Black revolutionaries aging in our prisons.
For decades, policing so-called ‘quality of life’ issues has had devastating effects. This approach must cease to exist.
Beyond electing progressive prosecutors, decarceration requires an ambitious, multifaceted struggle at all levels of governance.
Understanding the democratic appeal of retrenchment and reaction to movements for racial justice has never been more urgent.
For criminal law to become truly unexceptional, we must rethink our society, and its legal structures, as a whole.
Carceral feminists clamored for the Violence Against Women Act. What they got in return was criminalization, incarceration, and more violence.
Maternal incarceration is but a phase for the people who experience it. It doesn’t define them.
The prison town of Susanville, in California, is about to lose its livelihood. Its economic survival presents a test for abolition.
Racist gang profiling on the street becomes hard data, which then feeds a sprawling detention and deportation machine with the imprimatur of law.
Criminalization of so-called drug-induced homicides is yet another manifestation of the failed war on drugs — and far from an adequate public health response.