Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing To Build an Abolitionist Future, We Must Look to Indigenous Pasts Worlds without police and without prisons have already existed, predating colonization and slavery. By Cherise Morris , Truthout September 6, 2023 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Grassroots Organizing in Red States Is at the Heart of Abolitionist Struggle Here’s what we can learn from abolitionists who are organizing in some of the most conservative parts of the country. By Meghan Krausch , Truthout/Inquest September 5, 2023 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing It’s Nearly Labor Day, and Congress Has a Chance to Abolish Prison Slavery Formerly incarcerated workers are leading a push for basic labor rights in prisons that could change everything. By Mike Ludwig , Truthout September 1, 2023 Truthout
Excerpt | Prisons & Policing “Abolition Cannot Wait”: Exonerated Author Outlines Human Cost of Incarceration If people were aware of what was being done in the name of justice, in their name, they wouldn’t sit or stand for it. By Lacino Hamilton & Lisa Kloskin , Truthout/BroadleafBooks August 29, 2023 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Dozens of Heat-Related Deaths at Texas Prisons Prompt Dems to Call for Inquiry Democrats urged GOP House Oversight Chair James Comer to investigate dozens of prison deaths likely caused by heat. By Chris Walker , Truthout August 23, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing New Jersey Activists Won a Ban on Private Prisons, Now Biden Wants to Reverse It The Biden administration is backing CoreCivic in a lawsuit against a state law banning contracts with private prisons. By Catalina Adorno & Li Adorno , Truthout August 14, 2023 Truthout
Interview | Prisons & Policing New Book Edited by Incarcerated Writers Explores Oppression Beyond Prison Walls "American Precariat" explores the ways in which people have been pushed to the edge by myriad social ills. By Eleanor J. Bader , Truthout August 13, 2023 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Solitary Confinement Survivors Rally Support for Proposed Federal Ban With over 122,000 people in solitary nationwide, lawmakers are seeking to end the practice in federal facilities. By Victoria Law , Truthout August 4, 2023 Truthout
News | Prisons & Policing Calls Grow for Gov. John Bel Edwards to Commute Sentences of Death Row Prisoners The outgoing Democrat has two weeks to commute the sentences. His potential GOP successor plans to restart executions. By Julia Conley , CommonDreams August 3, 2023 Truthout
Op-Ed | Prisons & Policing 21 Years Later, Guantánamo Bay’s Harms Are Still Unending Shutting down the prison is a first step, not a last step. The U.S. must finally confront the nightmare it created. By Karen J. Greenberg , TomDispatch August 1, 2023 Truthout