Truthout speaks with Victoria Law about her new primer for people who are starting to think about mass incarceration.
Prisons
More than 4,000 private corporations in the U.S. have a financial stake in the expansion of the public prison system.
Incarcerated survivors are being erased from the narrative of Cuomo’s abuse.
The change in the policy does not allow incarcerated individuals to vote while in prison.
The reprisals against the hunger strikers have included being “sprayed down” with mace within an enclosed cell block.
The rules would increase surveillance of incarcerated people while also making written communications inaccessible.
To create a world without prisons and policing, we must first push past the ceiling oppression puts on our imagination.
Notorious for lethal medical neglect, Stewart Detention Center has turned particularly deadly amid the COVID pandemic.
Prison separates parents from their newborns and makes breastfeeding impossible. This cruelty must end.
Despite the introduction of mass testing, people in Illinois prisons and jails are still contracting COVID-19.