Tag: Prison Abolition
Anti-racism
The Isolation Diary
Demetrius Buckley meditates on the experience of being on hunger strike in the hole.
Demetrius Buckley
March 7, 2024
abolition
Don’t Be Cruel
Corey Devon Arthur writes from a medium-security correctional facility in upstate New York.
Corey Devon Arthur
June 22, 2023
abolition
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?
Aline Passos and Vitor Costa
November 9, 2022
Mass Incarceration
Carceral Pardons, Carceral Riots
Dan Berger argues that Trump wielded his pardon power for the same reason governors have largely refused it: to defend mass incarceration and the political-economic inequalities it upholds.
Dan Berger
January 27, 2021
abolition
Materializing Race
Jack Norton and David Stein respond to John Clegg and Adaner Usmani’s argument that mass incarceration isn’t a product of racism. The authors’ argument, they demonstrate, is both conceptually misguided and empirically wrong.
Jack Norton and David Stein
October 22, 2020