abolition

There’s no such thing as a “progressive prosecutor” in a system designed to criminalize Blackness

African Traditional Religions prepared me to grieve my mother

The price of radical concession

My mother proved protection is possible without police, even if she doesn’t know it

Trauma doesn’t turn you into a bad person

Police-Free schools are necessary, as is abolishing the white supremacist state they are rooted in

Prison abolition is more than a lofty theoretical. It’s also unpretty, everyday practices of resisting state policing

Why the plan to replace Rikers, or reform any prison, is doomed to perpetuate the problem

How prison-based thinking warps a lack of empathy for “deserving” victims to harm the vulnerable

The importance of reckoning with anti-Black bias in the white-dominated tech world

What do we do with abusers like R. Kelly if we abolish prisons?

My ancestors didn’t die for the right to vote, and we are allowed to question them anyway

The story of Black queer women imprisoned for defending themselves to reminds us this criminal system cannot save us

Malaysia to abolish the death penalty, drawing praise from the human rights groups

Calls to #AbolishICE are counterproductive unless they are also a call to #AbolishPolice

What do we need for a new freedom?: A proudly fat, disabled, bisexual enby’s vision for #Juneteenth

It’s no surprise more women are being imprisoned as less men are. We need abolition, not reforms.

How Jay-Z & other venture capitalists are creating new problems in the name of social justice

How growing up in what some called a religious “cult” helped me make sense of police abolition

“Prison was good for me”: How the state manipulates barely surviving its brutality into sanctuary

How the state uses “police morale” to divert from the violence inherent to policing

What does prison abolition mean to the mother whose son has been decapitated?

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