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The Shift
Our society barely recognizes the futility of imprisoning people for onerously long sentences.
A Moral Imperative: Release Aging and Long-Term Prisoners
Long-term prisoners who've committed violent crimes are found to be the least likely to offend again, so why do we keep them locked up until death?
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My Journey With Securus: Prison Phone Monopoly Punishes Loved Ones
Securus is an exploitative monopoly, and an unfortunate part of both prisoners' and their families' lives.
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Maya Schenwar | Your Home Is Your Prison
Efforts to reform the prison system may only be expanding the prison system into other parts of American life.
Largest Private Prison Firm Objects to Resolution to Fund Rehabilitative, Reentry Programs
CCA filed a formal objection with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), seeking to exclude the resolution from its 2015 proxy materials distributed to shareholders.
New York Civil Liberties Union Applauds Cuomo Veto of Bill That Would Decrease Accountability at Rikers Island
If Governor Cuomo had signed this bill, it would have been the first time in history that the New York state government overrode a county's authority to prosecute crimes …
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Community Corrections: Profiteering, Corruption and Widening the Net
How is it that so-called reform measures, marketed as reducing prison populations, will ultimately widen the net?
Talk Nation Radio: Maya Schenwar on Why Prison Doesn’t Work
Maya Schenwar is the author of “Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better.”
Truthout Interviews Maya Schenwar on Why Prisons Don’t Work
Maya Schenwar's knowledge of the criminal justice system is not purely theoretical.
“Locked Down, Locked Out”: What It Means to Be a Prison Abolitionist
Maya Schenwar talks about her own transformation as a journalist, activist and sister and what it means to be a prison abolitionist.