In Carceral Con, Kay Whitlock and Nancy A. Heitzeg reject "the popular but erroneous notion that the massive harms and injustices of the criminal legal system can be reformed as a standalone project." ...

Student activists gathered to discuss prison abolition at a teach-in on Wednesday night, bringing forward their concerns with the prison-industrial complex and proposing ways to move toward its ...

One of the most persistent myths about the US prison system is that the system of mass incarceration helps deter and change harmful behavior. Yet according to the federal government’s own statistics, ...

A participant holding a “Defund the Police” sign at a protest in Brooklyn, N.Y., demanding justice for all victims of police brutality. (Photo by Erik McGregor / LightRocket via Getty Images) This ...

Laura Anne Jones made news on the floor of Reform UK's conference, when she told BBC Wales the party would not rule out backing scrapping the Welsh Parliament. The Member of the Senedd for South Wales ...

In The Idea of Prison Abolition, Harvard philosopher Tommie Shelby asks whether incarceration can ever be just, either in an unjust world such as ours or in a fully just society. He shows his cards ...

When Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed five property tax reform bills into law on Dec. 19, there was hope in Columbus that it would appease voters who might have backed a citizen-led push to abolish ...

CLEVELAND -- A grassroots coalition is pressing ahead with efforts to abolish property taxes statewide, dismissing recent legislative attempts at reform as insufficient while collecting signatures for ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. There has been “no moral leadership from the Biden administration and the Democrats” on immigration policy, argues Detention Watch Network’s ...