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Atlanta’s Cop City is another chapter in the long history of U.S.-based colonialism. The second installment in a two-part series.
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Atlanta’s Cop City is another chapter in the long history of U.S.-based colonialism. The second installment in a two-part series.
Carceral settings imprison an untold number of experts—outsiders on the inside who have much to teach us about mass incarceration.
For the past decade, people incarcerated in Alabama have led successful national worker strikes. Could a new prisoners’ rights movement be underway?
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.
Abolitionist Ruchell Cinqué Magee is the country’s longest-held political prisoner.
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.
Du Bois’s ‘Black Reconstruction’ is widely embraced by decarceral activists, but it celebrates state violence in a way few would now accept.
How radical lawyers played a key role standing up for survivors of the Attica uprising.
The experiences of Michael and Zoharah Simmons show that the fight against the carceral state is embedded in a larger project of building a just world.
Mexicans and Mexican Americans have long been targets of legal and extralegal violence by the police. Learning this history is a step toward ending abuses that persist to this day.
Understanding the past of the Cook County Jail is understanding its present.
The movement to end police violence has a rich visual history. In Brooklyn, a collective of volunteers is doing its part to preserve it.
Absent a sustained politics of solidarity, culture wars will continue to erode civil rights while criminalizing, surveilling, and punishing those who claim them
The Reagan administration’s entrenchment of a retaliatory immigration detention regime sowed seeds of resistance that persist to this day.
Looking back on 25 years of abolitionist feminism and organizing in California.
A reflection from the founding editors of Inquest on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the publication.
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.
For incarcerated fathers, child-support and related debt create their own feedback loops of disadvantage and punishment.
The roots of e-carceration run deep, and we need to articulate digital abolition as the solution.
For criminal law to become truly unexceptional, we must rethink our society, and its legal structures, as a whole.
Human sacrifice, and nothing else, is the central problem that organizes the carceral geographies of the prison-industrial complex.
We can celebrate the ascent of Ketanji Brown Jackson, while acknowledging that indigent defense remains woefully inadequate in this time of crisis.
Many kids learn violent behaviors through intergenerational harm — and are then met with more harm by the state. Things don’t have to be this way.
How a committed critical race theorist on the bench might have written one of the worst Fourth Amendment cases in history.
Our nation’s turn toward punitiveness for people arriving at the Southwest border coincided with the modern era of mass incarceration.
On the 50th anniversary of a flashpoint of the American penal system, the cries of Attica still resonate today.
In the struggle to end mass incarceration, one must understand how the criminalization of violence is largely a modern creation.