Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn hosts “Torture Island,” a new exhibition by the Rikers Public Memory Project
A coalition of more than 80 organizations is ramping up its abolitionist campaign, urging Gov. Gavin Newsom to direct resources to supportive services
California’s effort to reform prisons is a dead end. What we really need is to close prisons and protect incarcerated people
Editors of a new anthology “We Grow the World Together” reflect on how parenting and an abolitionist politic inform one another
Eastern State Penitentiary’s CEO discusses the Philadelphia institution’s mission and vision
Prism looks at the landscapes that prisons shape to better inform our understanding of the carceral continuum
In 2018, a small coalition of residents, organizers, lawyers, and professors who organized to halt an eastern Kentucky prison construction rejoiced. The Department of Justice (DOJ) reversed course on its 2018 budget plan, rescinding $444 million earmarked for the construction of a federal prison in Roxana, Kentucky. The reason? The
When Rowan Thompson began working at PEN America in the Prison and Justice Writing program, they were eager to make a difference in the lives of incarcerated people. However, it wasn’t long before Thompson noticed serious signs of misalignment between staffers and management, leading quickly to frustration and disillusionment.
Yolanda Johnson was detained in 2020 on a $20,000 bond, an extraordinary amount of money that left her with no sense of how or when she would be able to secure her freedom. She spent four months in Jefferson County Jail awaiting news on her court date until she
“Because prisons are not just someplace else, somewhere else … They are our communities”
Fighting racial capitalism and white supremacy is key to closing the “hope gap” between wanting and achieving reparations and abolition
“The Carceral Carousel” details how jails, prisons, and detention centers rarely shutter, but rather pivot to hold a different population
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