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Exhibit on Rikers Island history provides deeper insights into jail’s impact

Tamar Sarai
Exhibit on Rikers Island history provides deeper insights into jail’s impact

‘We’re not sure if “reform” is cutting it’: Activists call on California to close 10 prisons

Victoria Valenzuela
‘We’re not sure if “reform” is cutting it’: Activists call on California to close 10 prisons

A new digital archive makes public the trials and triumphs of jailhouse lawyers

Tamar Sarai
A new digital archive makes public the trials and triumphs of jailhouse lawyers

This Minnesota abolitionist network is transforming how its community relates

Tamar Sarai
Illustration of person giving birth with partner and birth worker present.

The Nordic distraction: We need prison closures, abolition, and care

Abby Cunniff Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Gov. Gavin Newsom stands on a lawn, holding a microphone and surrounded by "Biden/Harris" campaign signs

Finding support and solidarity from community instead of police

Eyad Zeid
Finding support and solidarity from community instead of police

When abolition and parenting intertwine

Tamar Sarai
Maya Schenwar, left, and Kim Wilson co-edited "We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition."

A notorious shuttered prison grapples with preserving—not celebrating—America’s dark carceral history

Tamar Sarai
A notorious shuttered prison grapples with preserving—not celebrating—America’s dark carceral history

The prison in 12 landscapes

Tamar Sarai ray levy uyeda
The prison in 12 landscapes

The path for abolishing the police already exists

Joe Mayall
color photograph of police lined up on a dark street at night

No one thought they could shut this prison down. Can an interracial, interregional coalition do it again?

ray levy uyeda
color photograph of a bulldozer atop a coal mound as low-hanging smoke or fog lingers and blocks the tops of trees in the bac

PEN America doesn’t prioritize incarcerated writers, former staffers say

Natalye Childress
color digital collage of a line drawing of a person wrapped in chains. lines of red barbed wire cross the top third of the co