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Feminism and Prisons: Why “Add-Incarceration-and-Stir” Doesn’t Cut It
The fight for reproductive justice and human rights is inextricably linked to the need to end mass incarceration in all its forms and manifestations.
Released Occupy Activist Cecily McMillan: “There’s No Sense in Prison“
Released from Rikers prison after serving 58 days, Occupy activist Cecily McMillan discusses prisons, policing and why she'll keep protesting.
A New Way of Life and the New Underground Railroad: Making a Break for Freedom During the Era of Mass Incarceration
There's a new underground railroad for people returning home from prison.
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On Juvenile Lifer Sentencing, Will Massachusetts Do the Right Thing?
There's a crisis in juvenile justice in Massachusetts.
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A Year After Mass Hunger Strike in California Prisons, What’s Changed?
Last July, 30,000 California prisoners went on hunger strike. Some have been released from solitary and correctional authorities continue a review process as a class-action lawsuit by prisoners goes …
Restorative Justice: Reconciling Face to Face
Victims and perpetrators sitting down face to face. It can help heal their wounds, and our society. Incarcerating our way out of crime clearly hasn't worked, and it's costing …
Lawyers Move to Question ‘Callous’ Guantanamo Prison Chief Under Oath
The US government needs to stop hiding behind secrecy at Guantanamo Bay.
Real, Real Comrades: What 43+ Years of Prison Mean to Eddie Conway and Paul Coates
Marshall Eddie Conway and Paul Coates talk about how they met in Baltimore's Black Panther Party and maintained solidarity and friendship for 43 years after Conway was framed, convicted …
Tackling Debtors’ Prisons: Reflecting on the Death of Eileen DiNino
The death of a Pennsylvania mother in jail last week has once again highlighted the punitive cycle of criminal justice debt.
In a Maryland Jail, Teens Charged as Adults Face Isolation and Neglect
These young people, thought to number in the thousands across the country, are trapped in a kind of purgatoryu2013facing charges in adult court and held in adult facilities.