Connections with caregivers are key for children’s wellbeing, but the prison system is designed to tear families apart.
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Prison Is Designed to Make Fatherhood Impossible Read Post »
The news emphasizes low-level theft instead of corporate crime, pollution, and other predatory behavior.
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Media Panics About “Crime Waves” — But Downplays Crime Committed by Corporations Read Post »
Activists converged on Anderson, Indiana, to demand the release of two Black men who stood up to racist prison guards.
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Supporters Rally Behind Political Prisoner Who Stopped White Supremacist Attack Read Post »
Right now in the US, more than a million mothers are pouring energy and money into trying to care for incarcerated sons.
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Mothers of Imprisoned Sons Struggle Emotionally and Financially With No Support Read Post »
A new book offers an inside look at incarceration at Rikers Island, from intake to release.
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Nothing Can Truly Prepare You for Your First Time Behind Bars Read Post »
Living behind bars, I realized abolition requires refusing to conflate what is easily imaginable with what is possible.
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“I’m Going to Write My Way Out of Prison”: A Vision From Solitary Confinement Read Post »
In 2019, New York made it easier for defendants to learn about information used against them. That could now be revoked.
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Basic Reforms to New York’s Legal Code Are at Risk as Democrats Lurch Rightward Read Post »
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