Crime, Reform & Abolition

562 posts

We can’t allow oppressive systems to co-opt abolitionist language

Without a deeper understanding of liberatory politics, people become susceptible to manipulative co-opting of progressive slogans in support of the status quo

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6 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

The fight to Stop Cop City has decades-old roots

The Stop Cop City movement recalls Atlanta’s 1996 Olympic bid and the city’s history of wealth and white communities over Black and working-class people

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7 Min
By: Micah Herskind

Journalists play a crucial role in the fight for prison and police abolition

It is our responsibility to resist industry-typical copaganda and instead produce reporting that focuses on transformative and reparative practices and informs readers how to keep their communities whole, safe, and accountable

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5 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

The war on drugs persists for older incarcerated people in Florida

Leftover policies from the war on drugs and privatized prison health care companies are keeping older people in prison with poor access to necessary care

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9 Min
By: Khawla Nakua, Anthony Cobb

The movement for media reparations must include the entertainment industry

As advocates demand that news media reckon with how they have furthered anti-Black violence, entertainment media can’t ignore its guilt in doing the same

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6 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Prisons control incarcerated people’s relationships and their access to intimacy

American culture promotes the idea that love conquers all, but the reality is far more complicated for incarcerated people and their loved ones

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11 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

How the Shut Down Berks Coalition fought to close Berks County Detention Center

After eight years of organizing, advocates have succeeded in emptying and closing the notorious ICE facility. Now, they’re hoping to repurpose the space to serve the community

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3 Min
By: Alexandra Martinez

Student debt initiatives must include incarcerated people

Debt relief for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people is stymied by a lack of information, access, and political will

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8 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Police killings are public executions

Abolishing the police requires recognizing police killings as a fascistic tool and breaking cycles of fear and complacency

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5 Min
By: William C. Anderson

Reimagining the university through an abolitionist lens

The UC strike was the largest higher-education strike in U.S. history, but it was an “incomplete act of resistance”

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4 Min
By: Khirad Siddiqui

The racist criminal legal system won’t save Asian Americans from gun violence

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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6 Min
By: Michi Trota

Can the media move from anti-Black racism and harm toward reparations?

Prism’s Tamar Sarai and members of Media 2070 discuss why the journalism industry’s “reckoning” with anti-Blackness hasn’t shifted into accountability

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10 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

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