Truthout
Incarceration
Charging Prisoners Perpetuates Mass Incarceration
As a result of these runaway costs, counties and states continue to struggle with ways to increase revenue to pay for exorbitant incarceration bills.
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Creating Community-Based Alternatives to Incarceration: A Win-Win for Parents and Children
When mothers are sent to prison, their children become collateral captives.
Black Domestic Violence Survivors Are Criminalized From All Directions
Women who defend themselves against domestic violence are criminalized by the state.
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Reproductive Health Care in Women’s Prisons “Painful” and “Traumatic“
The “care” ranges from a dangerous absence of care to the painful and humiliating.
Criminalizing 10 Year Olds Is No Way to Run a Justice System
At age ten, children in England, Northern Ireland and Wales can be found guilty of a criminal offence.
Jail Video Visits Are No Substitute for the Real Thing
Prison video “visits” often replace in-person visits in order to maximize profits for private companies.
“Carceral Conglomerate” Makes Millions From Incarcerated, Their Friends and Families
Dallas-based Securus Technologies has become a carceral conglomerate, with phone service, video visitation and electronic monitoring.
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Challenging Our Visions of Abolition: An Open Letter to the Students of Village Leadership Academy
Students at Village Leadership Academy inspire hope that imprisoning children will be a thing of the past.
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Despite Enduring a Lifetime of Violence, Kelly Savage Emerges as an In-Prison Activist
Kelly's efforts are not the first efforts to address domestic violence inside California's prisons.
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Dan Berger Illustrates Centrality of Prison to Civil Rights Struggle
Author Dan Berger shows how prison and carceral violence fit into structural US racism and the Civil Rights movements of the 1960s in ‘Captive Nation.’