Yolanda Johnson was detained in 2020 on a $20,000 bond, an extraordinary amount of money that left her with no sense of how or when she would be able to secure her freedom. She spent four months in Jefferson County Jail awaiting news on her court date until she
The violence against oppressed people in both Gaza and U.S. prisons is a direct result of imperialism and the brutal policing
This past December, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul unveiled plans for Seneca, a slate of new affordable housing units located at the site of the former Lincoln Correctional Facility in Harlem. The minimum-security men’s prison, located at West 110th Street across from Central Park, was shuttered in 2019
Since 2021, radio hosts and movement workers Daniel Kisslinger and Damon Williams have hosted “One Million Experiments,” a podcast created in collaboration with Interrupting Criminalization that seeks to help listeners better understand abolition as not just a buzzword but as an everyday practice rife with creative potential. “One Million Experiments”
From abolition to climate justice, communities and collective action sustain movements for a better world
“Because prisons are not just someplace else, somewhere else … They are our communities”
Timothy James Young has been wrongfully incarcerated on death row since 1999. Letters line his path to freedom
Fighting racial capitalism and white supremacy is key to closing the “hope gap” between wanting and achieving reparations and abolition
Noni Battiste-Kosoko was being held on misdemeanor charges in Atlanta, Georgia’s notorious Fulton County Jail
A so-called “surge in violence” by teens is leading cities to crack down, but youth advocates say they’re going about it the wrong way
The federal government gives private prison companies millions to torture immigrants and snuff out the abolitionist movement
“The Carceral Carousel” details how jails, prisons, and detention centers rarely shutter, but rather pivot to hold a different population
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