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Tucson Draws the Line on Prison Privatization
For-profit incarceration must end everywhere.
Trump Rolls Back Rules Protecting Transgender Prisoners From Sexual Assault
Critics describe the policy shift as “a deliberate recipe for violence against transgender people.”
Changing Parole Boards Is One Step Toward Weakening Mass Incarceration
New York State shifts away from permanent punishment.
Fighting the Fees That Force Prisoners to Pay for Their Incarceration
‘'Pay-to-stay'’ fees push the poor into debt.
A Jailbreak of the Imagination: Seeing Prisons for What They Are and Demanding Transformation
Seeing justice done without relying on the barbarity of carceral systems.
Specters of Attica: Reflections From Inside a Michigan Prison Strike
Four men who were imprisoned at Kinross report on the unlivable conditions.
Rotten and Rat-Infested: The Appalling Food and Health Care Conditions Facing US Prisoners
The conditions of food and healthcare for inmates are sickening -- literally.
Beyond Exonerating the Innocent: Using Storytelling to Humanize Youth Sentenced to Die in Prison
Storytelling is central to restorative justice.
Twenty-Five Years After the Lucasville Uprising, Its Survivors Are Leading a New Prison Resistance Movement
Today's rebellions are not contained by prison walls.
Anticipating a Crush: In Prison, Tactical Teams Declare Uneven War
‘'We've already been on lockdown since Sunday afternoon here at Stateville Correctional Center.'’