Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the wake of the 2020 Black Live Matter protests, many people are learning for the very first time about the concept of prison ...

"Approximately one in 70 working people in the United States are employed by either the police or departments of corrections." In recent years, and in particular, in the aftermath of the Black Lives ...

What was your worst relationship like? Mine cost me over $55,000—and taught me important lessons about what it means to be an abolitionist in today’s society. Dre (not his real name) was largely ...

Editor's note: A year ago, after the murder of George Floyd, the U.S. exploded with protests bringing attention to the scourge of police violence against African Americans. Initial calls to "defund ...

A new media project to bring incarcerated writers to the forefront of prison abolition discourse Tentatively titled ‘Project Abolition,’ the new initiative by Scalawag Magazine seeks to take back the ...

Prison abolition has long been popular among academic criminologists, sociologists, and scholar-activists like Angela Davis, but before May 2020, it would have been unthinkable for a mainstream ...

Mansa Musa is a radical freedom fighter who was imprisoned in the US for nearly 50 years. Now, at 70 years old, he is the co-host of Rattling the Bars at The Real News Network, a staunch advocate for ...

No one deserves the dehumanizing treatment that’s endemic to our carceral system. I still want every lawless white supremacist Capitol insurrectionist to be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest ...

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Gina Dent is an associate professor of feminist studies, history of consciousness, and legal studies, editor of , and has been a prison abolition activist for more than 25 years. (Photo credit: Amira ...

A.B.O. Comix co-founder Casper Cendre chatted with Nerdist about the organization’s work in advocacy for LGBTQ+ people in prison, and making comics. In the wake of the 2020 Black Live Matter protests, ...