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Incarceration & Prisons

Posted inRACE & PLACE

'Imagine not just the end of prisons, but the end of a society that could have prisons'

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 26, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

Perspectives on incarceration and abolition you should be listening to

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 21, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Letter from a New Normal: Finding hope in purgatory

by DANTE August 20, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inARTS & SOUL

If your name ever falls on a prison roster: What I know now.

by EDUARDO MARTINEZ August 19, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Field Notes from the Inside: Women in Florida prisons share glimpses of COVID-19 lockdowns

by MARINA BUENO & BOUDICCA August 18, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inSCALAWAG UPDATES

Introducing Abolition Week

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors August 17, 2020March 15, 2022
Posted inSCALAWAG UPDATES

(Past) Virtual event—Casting Shadows: the prison in our daily lives

by Scalawag Team August 14, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Alabama wrote the book on Black Lives Matter, but today's challenges to defund police have Freedom Fighters back at the drawing board

by Katherine Webb-Hehn August 14, 2020November 21, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Amidst COVID-19, Louisiana parents and advocates are working to bring detained youth home

by Frances Madeson for the Louisiana Illuminator July 27, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Modern abolition and the lasting truth of change

by Scalawag Editors June 18, 2020April 16, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Free the press in prisons, too

by Lyle C. May June 15, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Defunding police: Atlanta shows politicians' promises don't equal change

by Anna Simonton June 9, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Abolishing parole led to COVID-19 'tinderbox' in NC prisons

by Lyle C. May May 18, 2020October 1, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Without visits or confidential calls, Louisiana prisoners can't access legal help

by Katie Fernelius May 8, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

How the right to vote became a weapon of exclusion

by Andrew Dilts May 4, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

'We don't want to die here.' Detained immigrants protest amid pandemic

by Carly Berlin April 6, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

How Louisiana's oil and gas industry uses prison labor

by Carly Berlin March 24, 2020September 27, 2023
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Detainment centers are not equipped to handle the coronavirus, experts say

by Anna Simonton March 16, 2020September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

'Starve the Beast': No New Cops

by Zaina Alsous November 4, 2019July 5, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Social Struggle Is a Way of Life: An Interview with Albert Woodfox

by Zaina Alsous August 19, 2019November 16, 2022
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Toxic Confinement

by Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard July 15, 2019October 27, 2020
Posted inRACE & PLACE

A letter to Black mamas

by Courtney Sebring and Aaron Bryant May 13, 2019November 13, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Life without parole is 'silent execution'

by Lyle C. May December 31, 2018November 12, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Whether Fences or Not

by Jacob Davis December 31, 2018November 14, 2023
Posted inRACE & PLACE

Measures meant to make North Carolina prisons safer are doing the opposite

by Lyle C. May October 29, 2018October 1, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Unions are needed everywhere—especially prisons

by Jonathan Michels July 5, 2018June 23, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

'Prisoners' organizations were thought to be dangerous.': Conversations with organizers of the North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union

by Jonathan Michels June 26, 2018November 16, 2022
Posted inARTS & SOUL

New Year's Revolution

by E Martinez June 20, 2018September 16, 2020
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

'The most violently exploited group in America': Incarcerated workers

by Jonathan Michels June 19, 2018June 23, 2021
Posted inPOLITICS & THE PEOPLE

Louisiana to expand voting rights for people with felony convictions

by Natalie Yahr May 21, 2018September 16, 2020

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