Tag: abolition
Social Lynching
Corey Devon Arthur discusses the racist media campaign in the run-up to his sentencing and what it felt like to be labeled a “superpredator.”
Canary in the Coal Mine
Cody Melcher reviews John Bardes’s The Carceral City and Lydia Pelot-Hobbs’s Prison Capital.
Day in the Life
Chanell Burnette reflects on her workday routine at Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women.
Cradled in Love
Mithrellas Curtis writes about the experience of losing her father while incarcerated.
Abolition and Tenant Power in Chinatown
Tenant organizers in LA write about the power of abolitionist politics in the fight against displacement in Chinatown.
Review of Family Abolition
Alex Adamson reviews M.E. O’Brien’s book Family Abolition. What is the relationship between family abolition and the abolition of racial capitalism?
Don’t Be Cruel
Corey Devon Arthur writes from a medium-security correctional facility in upstate New York.
Family Abolition
Colin Wilson on Sophie Lewis and the politics of family abolition
The Mother Gives Birth, the State Kills
Dina Alves tells the story of the Brazilian Mothers of May movement: how it came to be and the challenges it faces in the reality of the Brazilian criminal justice system.
Looting, Dispossessing, Incarcerating
How is the ecological fallout from the construction of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Brazil related to the struggle against prisons?