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Author Archives: Tamar Sarai

Tamar Sarai is a features staff reporter at Prism. Follow her on Twitter @bytamarsarai.

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Journalistic integrity requires a reckoning with how news media covers the criminal legal system

Tamar by Tamar Sarai January 24th, 2023January 23rd, 2023
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Advocates use fashion to promote abolition and illustrate the toll of incarceration

Tamar by Tamar Sarai December 1st, 2022December 1st, 2022
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Felon re-enfranchisement restores more than civil rights

Tamar by Tamar Sarai November 3rd, 2022November 3rd, 2022
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Restoring voting rights to those trapped by the carceral system goes beyond successful legislation

Tamar by Tamar Sarai October 19th, 2022October 19th, 2022
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Massachusetts organizers call for no new women’s prisons and an end to their construction

Tamar by Tamar Sarai October 14th, 2022October 19th, 2022
What happens to the children who are wards of the state?
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What happens to the children who are wards of the state?

Tamar by Tamar Sarai September 21st, 2022January 23rd, 2023
A Latino man with a mustache wearing a bright yellow firefighter's uniform holds a hose over his shoulder and looks to the left of the camera
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Ban the Box policies reduce job barriers for formerly incarcerated people

Tamar by Tamar Sarai August 30th, 2022January 23rd, 2023
a Black woman wearing grey sweatpants and a large white T-shirt stables facing away from the camera, leaning over the side of a crib with white slats
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Pregnancy, parenthood, and prison: the right to choose where autonomy is elusive

Tamar by Tamar Sarai July 19th, 2022July 19th, 2022
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Abolitionists push back against New York City’s proposed plan for a ‘feminist jail’

Tamar by Tamar Sarai July 7th, 2022July 7th, 2022
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Brain injuries and ‘the revolving door’ of incarceration

Tamar by Tamar Sarai May 26th, 2022January 23rd, 2023

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