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Incarceration & Prisons

Posted inARTS & SOUL

The abolitionist podcast that reveals how little you know about prison

by Alysia Nicole Harris June 23, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inSCALAWAG UPDATES

Read, Watch, Listen, Do: An Abolitionist Media Guide

by Scalawag Editors June 23, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inSCALAWAG UPDATES

Four headline mistakes newsrooms need to abolish

by Scalawag Team June 23, 2022April 28, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

'I don't want people to judge me by the music that I rap.' How RICO threatens freedom of speech

by Lil Mobb June 22, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

'Impact of an Icon': Grieving Young Dolph in South Memphis

by Dorian Record June 22, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Hooked on Copaganda: What CoComelon actually teaches kids about police

by Bunny McFadden June 22, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

'An unmanned, evil environment': Ashley Diamond and other trans women on life inside prison

by Ashley Diamond June 21, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

This couple wants you to know that conjugal visits are only legal in 4 states

by Steve Higginbotham & Jordana Rosenfeld June 21, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

'I'll never have closure.' What TV gets wrong about having a dad in prison.

by Jordan Gass-Pooré June 20, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

I was on The First 48. Your true-crime obsession is based on lies.

by Demetrius Buckley June 20, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Abolition, popular culture, and justice: introducing 'pop justice'

by Ko Bragg June 2, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Incarcerated Muslims in Florida celebrated Eid with limited accommodations

by Anthony Cobb and Khawla Nakua May 2, 2022December 5, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Florida's legacy of slow-rolling parole keeps thousands of people behind bars—some, for decades past their eligibility date

by Justin Garcia October 28, 2021March 9, 2022
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Contraband Books: What Texas prisons have against Michelle Alexander, Frederick Douglass, and Alice Walker

by Julie Poole September 28, 2021September 28, 2021
Posted inARTS & SOUL

In portraits and letters: 'Being free is not the same as freedom'

by Jason Kerzinski August 17, 2021November 16, 2022
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Abolition made practical

by Alysia Nicole Harris July 6, 2021July 6, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Salt, Soil, & Supper: From cell to soil

by Xander Peters June 30, 2021September 27, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

A prisoner's apothecary: Solitary Gardens reimagines six-by-nine cells

by Roshan Abraham, Next City June 30, 2021September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

'Who would want their child to miss everything?'

by Ko Bragg and JS June 25, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

In Photos: Desde Adentro (From Within)

by ITAMA Youth June 24, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Qualified Immunity: How 'ordinary police work' tramples civil rights

by Lyle C. May June 23, 2021October 18, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Two letters from North Carolina prisons make the same demands—45 years apart.

by Anne C. Willett & A.L. Harris June 22, 2021February 23, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Welcome to Abolition Week

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors June 21, 2021June 23, 2021
Posted inSCALAWAG UPDATES

Virtual Event: Join Scalawag for Realizing Abolition

by Scalawag Team June 11, 2021June 23, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Bad medicine in Louisiana prisons

by Xander Adams May 5, 2021April 13, 2022
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Reporter's Notebook: The Power of Proximity

by Ko Bragg February 12, 2021November 13, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Court fees and fines make voting near-impossible for ex-felons in Tennessee

by Iliana Hagenah December 22, 2020January 5, 2021
Posted inRACE & PLACE

North Carolina's Racial Justice Act can remove prisoners from death row. But is life without parole actual justice?

by Lyle C. May October 26, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

ICE-detained asylum-seekers on hunger strike amid COVID-19 face solitary confinement

by Frances Madeson September 1, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Birmingham increases police budget by $11.2M despite demands to defund: 'People literally cannot breathe, and it's not because of George Floyd'

by Katherine Webb-Hehn August 31, 2020November 21, 2023

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