Almost 10 years after they first began discussing the book, authors Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché discussed their recently released novel, “How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against ...
Prison abolition itself won’t be on the ballot, but organizers are pushing demands that could change the lives of thousands if adopted by referendum voters or victorious candidates. Policing and ...
Incarcerated people in the US are routinely forced to work for low pay or no pay, while state governments are saving billions of dollars—and private corporations are making billions of ...
A conversation with Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché about their new book, How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against Imprisonment. Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché, authors of the new ...
Twenty years after the publication of Are Prisons Obsolete?, Angela Davis’ case for prison abolitionism continues to provide the movement with its intellectual underpinnings. It was once seen as ...
A sociological critique of calls for the wholesale elimination of police, courts and prisons, arguing instead for a radical ...
“Approximately one in seventy working people in the United States are employed by either the police or departments of corrections.” In recent years, and in particular, in the aftermath of the Black ...
University of California, Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor Emerita Angela Davis helped popularize the concept of the prison industrial complex while traveling the world to help instigate the prison ...
A conversation about how the pandemic has raised the stakes for the abolition movement, collective care, and a world without prisons. Long before becoming a published writer, Mariame Kaba had already ...
God bless the woke, for they shall inherit the Earth. Or not. In the Sentinel Feb. 4 there was a piece about the opening of UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences gallery. Noted was a $2 million ...
Sarah Soucek’s interest in human rights and the prison abolition movement was spurred by several visits to a youth correctional center for girls near Bard College, a private liberal arts campus in Red ...