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.
On the Pine Ridge Reservation, an alliance of Native mothers fights against the meth epidemic and reimagines a future for their people
After the Palestinian Nabala Cafe was attacked, owner Eyad Zeid decided not to turn to police. Instead, he found strength and support in community
I’ve been incarcerated for nearly 19 years, and during my time inside, I’ve often wondered whether the sun would feel better on the other side of the fence
In this Q&A with Prism, ethnobotanist Karen Hall discusses Sagebrush in Prisons, a project that relies on the labor of incarcerated people to restore ecosystems where native plant species have been decimated
Prism looks at the landscapes that prisons shape to better inform our understanding of the carceral continuum
The violence against oppressed people in both Gaza and U.S. prisons is a direct result of imperialism and the brutal policing
In an ad released last spring by top electronic monitoring manufacturer BI Incorporated, viewers are introduced to the VeriWatch, one of the latest in the company’s suite of digital surveillance tools. The short video follows a day in the life of a VeriWatch user: how he starts his morning
How we choose to fight capital punishment now will shape the future of our struggle against the carceral system
Without a deeper understanding of liberatory politics, people become susceptible to manipulative co-opting of progressive slogans in support of the status quo
American culture promotes the idea that love conquers all, but the reality is far more complicated for incarcerated people and their loved ones
The violence Asian Americans fear is real—but we can, and must, do better than increasing a police state that targets marginalized people
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