A Future for Susanville
The prison town of Susanville, in California, is about to lose its livelihood. Its economic survival presents a test for abolition.
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The prison town of Susanville, in California, is about to lose its livelihood. Its economic survival presents a test for abolition.
Mental health professionals call the police, work with the police, and act like the police. But even in our ranks, an abolitionist future is possible.
For many years, I believed that the child welfare system could be reformed, but no more. It needs to be abolished.
The American penal system renders invisible the many people in its grip who are working hard to make amends.
The largest public health professional organization in the U.S. took a stand against carceral systems as fundamentally antithetical to public health. Here’s why that matters.
A growing carceral state has slowly replaced the coal industry in large swaths of Central Appalachia. But even here, a different future is possible.
Emboldened reactionaries tried to get voters to super-fund our city’s police force. But we out-organized them, and they lost badly. Here’s how we did it.
The criminal legal system almost took my life from me. The anger that came after now fuels my life’s work.
For those of us on the inside who believe in prison abolition by any means necessary, prison closures really mean prison closures. The state and some of my fellow prisoners…
Before bold, decarceral changes can become a reality, community organizers tirelessly move the policy needle in other ways. Here’s how they did it in Illinois.