Californians voted against banning slave labor in prisons. A few months later, over 1,000 incarcerated firefighters were deployed to save the very state that upheld their exploitation
Policies and procedures enforced “for our own good” undermine our autonomy and agency, perpetuate power imbalances, and ignore the root causes of criminal behavior
Joe Biden granted a commutation to the 80-year-old Indigenous activist in one of his last acts before leaving office
The New York governor’s pro-survivor brand is marred by her practice of abandoning survivors to abusive state cages
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
The Philadelphia native was arrested during the uprisings against police brutality in 2020, when hundreds of protesters faced federal charges and stricter punishments
Faced with threats of harassment, violence, and assault, incarcerated trans women have been pushed to self-harm amid delays in necessary medical care
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.
Prisons tend to lump us all into the same “criminal” box, but our individual stories and journeys are unique
Caitlin Oiye Coon, archives director at Densho, discusses how oral histories, photograph collection, and newspaper archives tell the story of Japanese American incarceration during World War II
Editors of a new anthology “We Grow the World Together” reflect on how parenting and an abolitionist politic inform one another
The communication challenges prisons impose on incarcerated writers are now well understood, but what about the hurdles erected by the publishing industry?
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