prisons

The business of prisons and the laws that make sure they exist

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

Prisons are using voice recognition technology as mass surveillance

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

Florida’s Amendment 4 would restore the voting rights of 1.7 million formerly incarcerated people

Like South Carolina, Florida refuses to relocate inmates under Hurricane Michael

South Carolina won’t relocate inmates in Hurricane Florence’s path

After NYC makes inmate calls free, Texas reduces charge from 26 cents a minute to 6

Inmates in at least 17 states begin massive labor strike, calling conditions modern-day slavery

Prisons increasingly employ teachers and secretaries to substitute for guards

‘The New Jim Crow’ lands on banned books lists in New Jersey prisons, now allowed after backlash

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

Bill Brennan, New Jersey candidate for governor, connects for-profit prisons with slavery

Two Inmates Die During National Prison Strike

President Obama Reforms Solitary Confinement In Federal Prisons

Columbia First US University To Divest from Private Prisons

Lawsuits claim private prison company covered up youth sexual abuse

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