The Prison in 12 Landscapes

13 posts

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

Documenting memories: Lessons from oral histories of Japanese American incarceration

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

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

The case for police-free schools

Despite data showing that police in schools make students less safe, the fight for police-free schools faces challenges. The Advancement Project’s Tyler Whittenberg discusses the ongoing challenges, even in states that have made progress

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10 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

‘Anything is possible’ in the fight for climate justice

In a wide- ranging discussion with Prism, Professor David N. Pellow links climate injustice to the prison industrial complex, militarism, genocide, and ecocide, arguing people have the power to combat the institutions that harm us and our planet

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

This Tennessee group created a court-watch program to hold judges accountable

In Shelby County, where court proceedings aren’t recorded, a court-watch program documents judges who too often act with impunity.

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7 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Archive of violence 

In this Q&A with Prism, the Texas After Violence Project’s executive director Gabriel Solis discusses the power of community archives

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

From genocide to activism: The Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe’s battle for land and justice

The chairman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas discusses the similarities between the first colonizers and today’s oil and gas companies

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

A farm in rural North Carolina provides a refuge and radical new possibilities for formerly incarcerated women 

Alamance County’s Benevolence Farm provides housing, job skills, and community connections to women leaving prison

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8 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Remembering histories of violence to chart a path toward repair

Stanley Howard’s entire life changed in November 1984 when he was arrested and tortured in Illinois by former Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and his “Midnight Crew.”  “I was 21 years old, scared half to death, and actually believed that they were trying to kill me by suffocation,” Howard

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8 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

Meet the prison book project helping to save lives

For two decades, the Appalachian Prison Book Project (APBP) has mailed books to people in prisons and jails across six states in Appalachia. More than 70,000 reference, nonfiction, and fiction books have reached people behind bars who would not have otherwise had access to them.  Lydia Welker is the

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5 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

Healing the devastation of the land 

In this Q&A with Prism, ethnobotanist Karen Hall discusses Sagebrush in Prisons, a project that relies on the labor of incarcerated people to restore ecosystems where native plant species have been decimated

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6 Min
By: ray levy uyeda

A notorious shuttered prison grapples with preserving—not celebrating—America’s dark carceral history

Eastern State Penitentiary’s CEO discusses the Philadelphia institution’s mission and vision

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10 Min
By: Tamar Sarai

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