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Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

Never eat the candy on your pillow: Of acorns and oaks

by Derek R. Trumbo, Sr. July 17th, 2023February 8th, 2024
color photograph of an outdoor protest. two people hold a large cardboard sign with white handwritten text that reads "Free them all"
Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

New report complicates decarceration wins

Tina Vasquez headshot by Tina Vásquez May 24th, 2023May 24th, 2023
digital collage of a bed with yellow and white sheets. different types of unbranded candy falls from the top left corner to the pillows. in the background, a mint green block covers the left half, with darker green bars cutting at a diagonal from the bottom left to the top right corners, with small stripes of mint green between them like prison bars
Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

Never eat the candy on your pillow: A commonsense guide to prison

by Derek R. Trumbo, Sr. May 22nd, 2023February 8th, 2024
digital collage with a yellow background. on the bottom left, four incarcerated men in uniforms stand with their backs to the camera. on the right side, a black-and-white cutout of a photograph of a Latinx man looks directly at the camera. diagonally down from the top left corner is a dotted black line with "carceral debt" curving along the loop
Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

Incarceration is financial extraction

by Manuel Galindo May 11th, 2023May 18th, 2023
color stock photo of an immigrant rights protest. five people hold a long white banner that reads "keep our families together"
Posted inEconomy & Workers' Rights

Prison reform must include immigration justice

by Frances Nguyen March 28th, 2023May 8th, 2023
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Posted inClimate & Environment

Prison abolition is environmental justice

by Ray Levy Uyeda March 22nd, 2023March 22nd, 2023
color photograph of two Black people's hands reaching towards the center of the frame. one holds a small drought-resistant plant out to the other against the backdrop of a prison fence with spiraling barbed wire across the top
Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

Intentional design can lay a blueprint for abolition

Tamar by Tamar Sarai March 16th, 2023March 16th, 2023
color photograph of a person in a crowd of protesters holding a red paper poster with black ink text reading "no more solitary confinement"
Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

Alabama prison strikers’ demands push for decarceration

by Jared Ware November 11th, 2022November 10th, 2022
Posted inCrime, Reform & Abolition

Prison health care is only available if you can afford it

by Cecille Joan Avila October 31st, 2022October 31st, 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

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