Crime, Reform & Abolition

562 posts

Never eat the candy on your pillow: The forgotten toys

Prisons tend to lump us all into the same “criminal” box, but our individual stories and journeys are unique

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4 Min
By: Derek R. Trumbo, Sr.

How Chicago organizers managed to rid the city of ShotSpotter

The controversial police surveillance tech is often inaccurate, according to research that allowed activists to launch a fact-based campaign and a potential model for organizers in other cities

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5 Min
By: Noah Berlatsky

Jury finds U.S. contractor liable for torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq

IT company CACI was ordered to pay each of the three Iraqi plaintiffs $14 million in damages

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3 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

A man tasked with overseeing Seattle police is developing a plan with Target to boost police ‘legitimacy’

Federal monitor Antonio Oftelie sought extensive input from police chiefs, but with no clear evidence of authentic community input, advocates worry about the plan’s true motivations

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11 Min
By: Glen Stellmacher

‘Everything in prison is done in a timely manner, except when our lives are on the line’

Prison is bound to a punitive clock—a clock that was ignored when it could have saved a life

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5 Min
By: Demetrius Buckley

Activists and survivors gather at the University of Pennsylvania to discuss reparative justice for those impacted by Holmesburg Prison experiments 

50 years after the Holmesburg Prison experiments ended, survivors and their families launch two events in Philadelphia calling for public education and reparations

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5 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

People on death row are just as susceptible to election misinformation

Death row Republicans show us that hatred for the ‘other’ leads some incarcerated people to follow the algorithm of their own biases

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8 Min
By: Lyle C. May

The sentencing of Mexico’s former top cop exposes the DEA’s counterproductive war on drugs

Observers of the trial say the sentencing proves the war on drugs is a counterproductive failure

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5 Min
By: Maurizio Guerrero

The state of Missouri lynched Marcellus “Khaliifah” Williams

Gov. Mike Parson’s racist and hypocritical pardon history reflects the U.S. criminal justice system’s insidious bedrock of white supremacy and Black dehumanization

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5 Min
By: Hannah Greene

A new digital archive makes public the trials and triumphs of jailhouse lawyers

The ‘Flashlights’ archive from Jailhouse Lawyers Initiative features more than 300 letters, poems, interviews, and pieces of artwork from incarcerated legal advocates

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5 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

This Minnesota abolitionist network is transforming how its community relates 

When Relationships Evolving Possibilities responds to people in crisis, it has two rules: don’t call the police, and don’t police each other

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15 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Newsom’s California Model for prison reform is all smoke and mirrors

The failed model was supposed to help incarcerated people exactly like me

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6 Min
By: Tomiekia Johnson

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