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Abolition
Releases, Not Transfers, Must Be at the Center of Prison Closure Plans
As former residents of a California prison, we celebrated its closure but abhorred the punitive transfer process.
“Woke 1” Narratives Suggest the US Was Briefly Ruled by the Left. It Wasn’t.
The US wasn’t remade according to abolitionist or socialist movement demands. Now fascists wield the machinery of power.
States Claim to Invest in “Humane” New Prisons — But Prisons Were Never Humane
The historical record shows that the glossy language of “reform” contributes to the normalization of prisons and jails.
Is There a Future Without Incarceration? Abolitionist Art Shows Us One.
Prison abolitionist art creates a future to briefly live in, and from that place, turn and look at our present.
Jewish Holiday of Shavuot Links Economic Justice With Expanding Social Freedom
The divisions the ruling class manufactures and depends upon hinder the universal liberation that the Torah envisions.
Visuals Help Expose the Realities of Mass Incarceration to a Wider Audience
A Brooklyn exhibition in collaboration with Mariame Kaba features paintings about prisons, incarceration, and abolition.
PA’s Abolitionist Organizers Win Victory Against Mandatory Life Without Parole
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling is part of a nationwide trend to challenge life without parole sentences.
Deportation Is Not a Hardship That Shall Pass — It Is an Interminable Agony
US immigration agencies deported my father and uncles. Some called them “felons.” I called them family.
Robin D. G. Kelley: It’s Not Enough to Abolish ICE — We Have to Abolish Police
“What’s happening now has happened before,” Kelley said, underscoring the anti-Blackness foundational to US fascism.
Incarcerated Women Featured in True Crime Media Face Flood of Sexual Harassment
Incarcerated women are being made involuntary performers in a spectacle that attracts men who dehumanize them.