Crime, Reform & Abolition

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Reproductive injustice in detention, maternal health care, and more

This week, reproductive injustice made headlines as allegations came to light that migrant women detained at Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia have been sterilized without their consent. While reports of these human rights abuses have shocked much of the American public, in fact, reproductive injustice has long run

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3 Min
By: Ashton Lattimore

It’s time to disband campus police departments

(Content note: This article contains descriptions of anti-Black police violence.) In April 2019, Stephanie Washington and Paul Witherspoon, a young, Black, unarmed couple, were sitting in their car singing love songs a few miles away from Yale University’s campus in New Haven. Suddenly, a Yale police officer, accompanied by

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By: Nia Berrian

USPS attacks threaten ‘transformative’ prison pen pal programs

During a year marked by a highly consequential election and a deadly pandemic, recent attacks on the United States Postal Service (USPS) have illuminated the necessity of the postal service for both ensuring electoral justice and providing much needed supplies to the nation’s most vulnerable communities. Among those communities

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By: Tamar Sarai

Prisons created the blueprint for reproductive violence in immigrant detention

This story is part of Prism’s series on incarceration as gendered violence. Read the rest of the series here. The single most overwhelming response I’ve ever received to reporting was last year when I published a three-part series about the U.S. Marshals Services’ (USMS) role in the

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By: Tina Vásquez

Overmedicated and caged—what’s happening in women’s prisons

This story is part of Prism’s series on incarceration as gendered violence. Read the rest of the series here.  At Massachusetts Correctional Institute-Framingham (MCI-Framingham), incarcerated women lose more than their freedom. Many say that during their time there, they also lost the ability to control medical decisions that would

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By: Tamar Sarai

In prisons, reproductive abuse and coercion are the norm

This story is part of Prism’s series on incarceration as gendered violence. Read the rest of the series here.   Jails and prisons were designed as sites of reproductive coercion. Women’s divergence from what is narrowly considered appropriate gender performance under patriarchy, particularly around sex and reproduction, has been

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By: Briana Perry

Incarcerated women fight for a place in the #MeToo movement

This story is part of Prism’s series on incarceration as gendered violence. Read the rest of the series here.  For four women and gender-nonconforming people at California’s Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, ongoing sexual violence was a feature of their incarceration. The prison offered scant avenues

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5 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

The system is failing Black domestic violence survivors

This story is part of Prism’s series on incarceration as gendered violence. Read the rest of the series here.  When I was fresh out of undergrad, I worked as a victim advocate with people who survived violent harm in Essex County, New Jersey, and the memories of the survivors

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5 Min
By: Ashley C. Sawyer

How prisons, jails, and policing inflict gendered violence

Women and LGBTQI people see their bodily autonomy, sexual agency, and physical safety compromised

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By: Tamar Sarai

Tackling the other public health pandemic—police violence

This story is part of a joint series by The Forge and Prism. Read the rest of the series—Organizing, Innovation, and Upheaval—here. We have all spent the bulk of this year at home, yet law enforcement has managed to kill more people from January 1 to June 30,

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5 Min
By: Emily Cowan

New Orleans City Council votes to curb criminal court fees

A resolution passed last Thursday by the New Orleans City Council seeks to curb the imposition of fines and fees in criminal cases. The resolution formally ends the “user pay” system by incentivizing judges to not impose fines and fees because for every $1 imposed, $2 will be subtracted from

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3 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Q&A: Sacramento organizers say “the center has shifted” on police violence

This story is part of a joint series by The Forge and Prism. Read the rest of the series, Organizing, Innovation, and Upheaval, here. This summer, millions of people have poured into the streets to fight police violence and over-policing — many of them for the first time. But veteran organizers

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11 Min
By: Christi H. Ketchum

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