Crime, Reform & Abolition

562 posts

Documenting memories: Lessons from oral histories of Japanese American incarceration

Caitlin Oiye Coon, archives director at Densho, discusses how oral histories, photograph collection, and newspaper archives tell the story of Japanese American incarceration during World War II

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

The Nordic distraction: We need prison closures, abolition, and care

California’s effort to reform prisons is a dead end. What we really need is to close prisons and protect incarcerated people

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3 Min
By: Abby Cunniff, Ruth Wilson Gilmore

Finding support and solidarity from community instead of police

After the Palestinian Nabala Cafe was attacked, owner Eyad Zeid decided not to turn to police. Instead, he found strength and support in community

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9 Min
By: Eyad Zeid

The case for police-free schools

Despite data showing that police in schools make students less safe, the fight for police-free schools faces challenges. The Advancement Project’s Tyler Whittenberg discusses the ongoing challenges, even in states that have made progress

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10 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

‘Anything is possible’ in the fight for climate justice

In a wide- ranging discussion with Prism, Professor David N. Pellow links climate injustice to the prison industrial complex, militarism, genocide, and ecocide, arguing people have the power to combat the institutions that harm us and our planet

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Never eat the candy on your pillow: The ‘what if’ game 

When I find myself in a bad place mentally, I try to work my way out of it by playing a little game: I ask myself every question I can think of

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5 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

When abolition and parenting intertwine

Editors of a new anthology “We Grow the World Together” reflect on how parenting and an abolitionist politic inform one another

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7 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

This Tennessee group created a court-watch program to hold judges accountable

In Shelby County, where court proceedings aren’t recorded, a court-watch program documents judges who too often act with impunity.

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7 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Archive of violence 

In this Q&A with Prism, the Texas After Violence Project’s executive director Gabriel Solis discusses the power of community archives

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Breaking In: The challenges of making it in the publishing industry from prison

The communication challenges prisons impose on incarcerated writers are now well understood, but what about the hurdles erected by the publishing industry?

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14 Min
By: Lyle C. May

Cooked in custody: Four incarcerated people describe dangerous conditions in Texas state prisons

In this collection of testimonials, Kwaneta Harris and others incarcerated in Texas state prisons describe their unsuccessful daily attempts to evade being cooked in custody

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11 Min
By: Kwaneta Harris, Xandan Gulley, Marissa Potts, Lanae Tipton

Never eat the candy on your pillow: Sun on my skin 

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

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5 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

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