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Tag: Crime and Prison

Hard-won legislation meant to limit or end solitary confinement has run up against the power of correctional systems to neutralize change.

Bonnie Tenneriello

The United States has long supported the repression of Latin American land defenders. The tactics it exported are coming to the Atlanta forest.

Azadeh Shahshahani

With time running out, jury nullification for civil disobedience is worth the risk.

David McDermott Hughes

Family policing is deeply unjust. The nuclear family is too.

Will Holub-Moorman

Just as abolitionists fought the Fugitive Slave Act, those resisting the criminalization of reproductive health can employ jury nullification.

Sonali Chakravarti

Draconian individual punishment distracts from systemic change and reinforces the cruelest and most racist system of incarceration on the planet.

Joseph Margulies

The strategy of “leaderless resistance” has allowed white power activists to disguise the extent of their organizing.

Kathleen Belew, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, David Hogg

Its illegitimacy goes far beyond the war on drugs.

Stuart Schrader

It has only gotten harder to hold presidents accountable.

Stuart Streichler

David Hogg and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz discuss replacement theory, the gunman’s manifesto, and how we organize against violent white supremacy.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, David Hogg
Angel Francisco Breard was executed by Virginia in contempt of a treaty that required his home country to be notified when he was first charged. What difference might it have made if the U.S. had obeyed the law?
Matt Nadel

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.

Randall L. Kennedy

Until COVID-19, tuberculosis killed more people each year than any other infectious disease. Its rising toll is increasingly fueled by mass incarceration.

Katharine S. Walter

We need to reckon with police lies not only as a form of individual misconduct but as a matter of political speech.

nia t. evans

The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.

Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners, Beth E. Richie, nia t. evans

The lawless—and ongoing—administration of the prison underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today.

Baher Azmy

Derecka Purnell discusses her new book Becoming Abolitionists, how she came to join the movement against policing and prisons, and what a just world looks like.

nia t. evans, Derecka Purnell

We must end the widespread practice of funding government budgets by extorting poor people apprehended for minor offenses.

Andrew Ross

Effective responses to violence—preventing it, interrupting it, holding people accountable, and helping people heal—already exist. We need to learn from and invest in them.

Amanda Alexander, Danielle Sered

New York State Rifle & Pistol v. Bruen may give the right—and its politics of racial resentment—a major win,  at the cost of gun control laws known to prevent shootings.

Jonathan M. Metzl

Derecka Purnell interviews historian Elizabeth Hinton about her new book and how talk of “riots” discredits Black political demands.

Elizabeth Hinton, Derecka Purnell

Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Black people in response to the civil rights movement.

Matthew D. Lassiter

A century of failed attempts in Minneapolis.

Michael Brenes

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