Revoking Probation
After years of working in the system, a reformer and believer in government gives up on probation and parole.
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After years of working in the system, a reformer and believer in government gives up on probation and parole.
Now more than ever, we need a clear understanding of the role of violence, trauma, and survivorship in our harm reduction practice.
Absent a sustained politics of solidarity, culture wars will continue to erode civil rights while criminalizing, surveilling, and punishing those who claim them
Here's how imprisoned writers can offer reasoned analysis on policies affecting the carceral state.
Why understanding restorative and transformative justice on their own terms, and at their best and worst, will help us build more of both.
In our imaginations, we need to break the equation of policing and public safety.
Immigrants fighting their deportations need lawyers. That doesn’t mean federally funding their defense should be a movement goal.
The legal institutions, processes, procedures, and actors implicated in the progression of criminal cases are simply beyond reform.
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.
Data-driven approaches to reform can reinforce aspects of a system that’s rotten to the core.
For criminal law to become truly unexceptional, we must rethink our society, and its legal structures, as a whole.
A rare instance of state prisoners, state prison administrators, and the governor of California all publicly agreeing that a particular prison ought to be closed.
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.
Dismantling the machine that is mass incarceration requires all of us to think outside the box.
For alternative responses to policing to work and reduce the footprint of the criminal legal system, they must work in concert and holistically to address both immediate and longer-term social…
Shifting the narrative and policies on gun violence to include killings by police may spare many families from the pain of losing loved ones.
The work of addressing harm without more prisons, police, and punitiveness is daunting. But it can be done. And it’s happening now.
The carceral system dehumanizes not just the people we condemn, but also its massive workforce.