The “pinkwashing” of prisons ramps up in Vermont, where local officials are pushing for the construction of a “gender-responsive” facility
Collaborations between Designing Justice + Designing Spaces and the furniture firm Formr offer a new approach to transitional housing
Organizers with Chinatown Art Brigade and Wing on Wo Project spoke to Prism about why the city’s plan to replace Rikers Island with four borough-based jails is a dangerous continuation of the carceral system.
Black Families Love and Unite emphasized that reform cannot repair the harms of the family policing system, at a launch event for the report
The Indigenous-led organization Appalachian Rekindling Project purchased land in Kentucky originally slated for the development of a federal prison
A coalition of more than 80 organizations is ramping up its abolitionist campaign, urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to direct resources to supportive services
The ‘Flashlights’ archive from Jailhouse Lawyers Initiative features more than 300 letters, poems, interviews, and pieces of artwork from incarcerated legal advocates
When Relationships Evolving Possibilities responds to people in crisis, it has two rules: don’t call the police, and don’t police each other
Editors of a new anthology “We Grow the World Together” reflect on how parenting and an abolitionist politic inform one another
America watched in horror this spring as armed phalanxes of police assaulted peaceful pro-Palestine protesters on campuses across the nation. The raids on student encampments ranged from dubious arrests to snipers on campus rooftops. This most recent episode of widespread police aggression only reinforced Americans’ belief that law enforcement is
When Rowan Thompson began working at PEN America in the Prison and Justice Writing program, they were eager to make a difference in the lives of incarcerated people. However, it wasn’t long before Thompson noticed serious signs of misalignment between staffers and management, leading quickly to frustration and disillusionment.
“I had now seen at close quarters the haughty white men who made the laws; I had seen how they acted, how they regarded black people, how they regarded me; and I no longer felt bound by the laws which white and black were supposed to obey in common. I
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