Crime, Reform & Abolition

562 posts

Never eat the candy on your pillow: Life as an undesirable

Many so-called undesirables in prison fit into social categories like nerds, geeks, and weirdos. Just like on the outside, they are bullied and unaccepted

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5 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

‘His liberation is our liberation’: Indigenous groups celebrate Leonard Peltier’s release from prison

Joe Biden granted a commutation to the 80-year-old Indigenous activist in one of his last acts before leaving office

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5 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

The pro-survivor hoax: How Kathy Hochul betrays incarcerated survivors

The New York governor’s pro-survivor brand is marred by her practice of abandoning survivors to abusive state cages

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5 Min
By: Linda Luu, Sojourner Rivers, Assia Serrano, Nathan Yaffe, Mon M

A Portland movement journalist is going to trial for her coverage of a pro-Palestine protest

Alissa Azar said her recent arrest is part of a larger pattern of escalating intimidation and harassment by local law enforcement

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11 Min
By: Jen Byers

Utica’s refugee community demands justice for 13-year-old boy killed by police

Karen refugee Nyah Mway was shot by police last June, fueling protests for accountability from the city and programs for local youth

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13 Min
By: Eric Santomauro-Stenzel

Never eat the candy on your pillow: You are what you eat

Incarcerated people have extremely limited choices when it comes to the food they have access to in prison. The steady diet of carbs and starch makes them sick

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4 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

Four years after protests against police violence, Khalif Miller is still calling for justice from prison

The Philadelphia native was arrested during the uprisings against police brutality in 2020, when hundreds of protesters faced federal charges and stricter punishments

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7 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Never eat the candy on your pillow: Time confines us all

I’m losing my mother. What can be done? Nothing. All I can do is be here for her from behind bars

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5 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

Inside the country’s first official safe drug consumption site

As political attacks on a drug overdose prevention site in New York City ramp up, the center continues its research-backed, lifesaving work

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6 Min
By: Rebecca. L. Root

How prisons become ‘corridors of contagion’ during a pandemic

Victoria Law’s new book follows five incarcerated individuals who endured the first years of the COVID-19 pandemic behind bars

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5 Min
By: Britta Shoot

Trans women in New Jersey prisons say they’re forced to self-mutilate for gender-affirming surgeries

Faced with threats of harassment, violence, and assault, incarcerated trans women have been pushed to self-harm amid delays in necessary medical care

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5 Min
By: Adam Rhodes

Prison telecom providers are shifting strategy by exploiting tablet services

Securus Technologies and ViaPath Technologies control about 80% of the U.S. market for phone and video calls in prisons and jails. With new federal regulations threatening their profits, the companies are pivoting to tablets.

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16 Min
By: Tatiana Walk-Morris

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