Crime, Reform & Abolition

562 posts

These 12 elections could curb ICE’s powers

This story originally appeared at The Appeal. Immigrants’ rights activists have been protesting local officials that help ICE arrest and deport immigrants, pressuring them to end those ties, and candidates for these offices have felt the heat.  Most significantly, their work has upended the usually quiet landscape of sheriff’s

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10 Min
By: Daniel Nichanian, The Appeal

ACLU sues Omaha city and police for suppressing free speech during summer protests

This story originally appeared at NOISE Omaha, and is republished with permission as part of a partnership between Prism and NOISE. The ACLU of Nebraska is bringing a federal Civil Rights lawsuit against the city of Omaha, the chief of police, and one police captain. They announced the suit Monday

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3 Min
By: Emily Chen-Newton

‘Time’ documentary explores the toll of incarceration on families

Fox Rich has experienced the impact of incarceration in a number of different ways. She was incarcerated herself for over three years. She’s been mothering children with an incarcerated parent for almost two decades, and during that time has also been supporting, loving, and ardently working to secure the

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4 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

The criminalization of protest started long before Rep. Attica Scott’s arrest

Last week, Kentucky state Rep. Lisa Willner submitted a request to draft “Attica’s Law,” a bill that would eliminate a clause from Kentucky’s rioting statute that lets prosecutors charge anyone who was a part of a group of rioters even if they themselves did not engage in “riotous

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5 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Forget hoping for Trump’s ‘speedy recovery.’ What about the rest of us?

When news broke that President Donald Trump had tested positive for COVID-19, the news cycle dutifully turned the page on his open white supremacy and the First Lady’s reconfirmed disdain for migrant children. At the same time, across social media, the performative “when they go low, we go high”

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3 Min
By: Ashton Lattimore

Does the ‘Citizen’ app reimagine public safety, or reenforce fears?

Around 1:30 AM on a late August night, I found myself wide awake in bed doomscrolling on Twitter when I heard the ring of shots, loud and clear enough for me to know that they were only a few blocks away. It had been a summer of chaos, cries,

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11 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

News Analysis: The public safety discussion during Tuesday’s debate was a disaster

The conversation between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden about the criminal legal system at Tuesday night’s presidential debate was as muddled and incoherent as the framing of the debate topic itself, “Race and Violence in Our Cities.” The 20 minute discussion—if it can even

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3 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

RBG left a complicated legacy, but here’s how you can honor the good parts

The death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a fierce and revolutionary advocate for gender equality and reproductive rights, has left behind a complex legacy in the American judicial system. No stranger to sexism herself, in 1972 Ginsburg became the co-founder of the ACLU Women’s Rights Project, which pushes to

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5 Min
By: Carolyn Copeland

The fight for justice for Breonna Taylor

In the wake of this week’s grand jury decision to indict only one of the Louisville Metro Police Department officers responsible for fatally shooting Breonna Taylor in March, and to charge him only with wanton endangerment, protesters have continued to take to the streets as organizers plan the path

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2 Min
By: Ashton Lattimore

The work isn’t over. Activists respond to Breonna Taylor grand jury decision

Since the fatal shooting of Breonna Taylor on March 13, communities in Louisville and across the country have been in a state of unrest, sharing their pain and grief, and grappling with what justice for the loss of Taylor’s life would actually mean. Calls to arrest and charge the

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3 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

From the murder of Emmett Till to today, jury diversity remains elusive

Sixty-five years ago today, an all-white jury acquitted the accused murderers of Emmett Till—a 14-year-old Black boy who was lynched after allegedly offending a white woman in a local shop. The jury spent just over an hour deliberating. Months later, the suspects confessed and faced no punishment because they

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3 Min
By: Vangela M. Wade

I don’t glamorize police in my household, and I’m teaching my child why

“Let’s have revolutionary brown babies.” My now-partner said those words to me on our first date back in 2015. At the time I was a member of Black Youth Project 100, a national membership-based organization of Black 18-35 year olds who are fighting for the liberation of all Black

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5 Min
By: Arissa Hall

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