CAL FIRE’s decades-old reliance on prison labor is coming to an end. The state should invest in firefighting jobs.
The Road to Abolition
Amid this galvanizing moment of uprisings and calls to defund the police, Truthout has gathered together some of our most important work on the abolition of policing and prisons. For a decade, we’ve been documenting this work and the ideas behind it. In this feature, we’ve gathered together some recent and past pieces that can help us to envision abolition — both the imagination and the practice of it — and move together toward a more liberated future.
Across the U.S., Democratic politicians are embracing playbooks that put mass incarceration into overdrive in the ‘90s.
Racial justice advocates say both parties are exploiting “defund the police” for political gain.
You will never find healing when you are isolated from those that help you feel cared for, says organizer Kami Beckford.
Students can challenge injustices like school policing by organizing and making their voices heard at school boards.
“The Box” shows the humanity of the people being subjected to solitary, says playwright Sarah Shourd.
The criminal legal system in the United States forces survivors to choose between their freedom and their lives.
As an Arab American whose community has endured chilling surveillance, I back the movement to defund the police.
Opponents of the proposed women’s facility in Harlem affirm “there is no such thing as a feminist jail.”
Adams’s plan lowers education department funding by nearly $1 billion, while raising the NYPD budget to $11.1 billion.