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Mass Incarceration
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Southerners on New Ground’s Bail Out Continues the Radical Tradition of Black August
An organization is once again raising bail money for Black women.
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Will Altering the 13th Amendment Bring Liberation to the Incarcerated 2.3 Million?
Building a movement to abolish the exclusion clause would be a major step in changing public attitudes about incarcerated people.
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How the US Imposes the Worst of Its Prison Paradigm Abroad
Incarceration rates rise and prisoner treatment worsens in countries where the US runs prison programs.
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Trans People in Prison Fight Barriers to Changing Their Legal Names and Gender Markers
California's SB 310 could ease some of the challenges facing trans people in prison, such as a legal name change.
Moving the Needle on Black Liberation
“We need to center incarcerated people in the conversations about Black lives,” writes incarcerated organizer Emile DeWeaver.
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Prison Rips Babies From the Arms of Their Mothers: A View From Behind Bars
Children are the “collateral damage” of a system obsessed with punishing rather than supporting mothers.
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I Spent 14 Months in Jail Because I Couldn’t Pay My Way Out
A 20-second bond hearing changed the lives of Lavette Mayes and her children because she couldn't afford bail.
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Welfare and Imprisonment: How “Get Tough” Politics Have Excluded People From Society
Mass incarceration and welfare cuts have the same origin: the US's deadly get-tough politics.
How “Bipartisan Criminal Justice Reform” Institutionalizes a Right-Wing, Neoliberal Agenda
The US carceral system is not winding itself down as a humanitarian response to the racialized and economic brutalities of mass incarceration.
We Can’t “End Mass Incarceration” if We Erase the Experiences of Criminalized Women
Closing Rikers will not end the mass criminalization of women and girls of color under the criminal legal system.