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Policing and prison abolition policy questions have been minimized in the lead-up to the 2024 November election, despite their significance in the last election cycle. Yet these ideas have finally ...

The socialist movement historically presented itself as a political force for workers, but this episode argues that the relationship has changed dramatically. Using the Socialism 2026 conference in ...

On a quiet evening in America, somewhere behind prison walls, a clock approaches the predetermined hour. A man waits in a cell, counting breaths, knowing each one may be his last. Down the hall, ...

University of California, Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor Emerita Angela Davis helped popularize the concept of the prison industrial complex while traveling the world to help instigate the prison ...

Almost 10 years after they first began discussing the book, authors Rachel Herzing and Justin Piché discussed their recently released novel, “How to Abolish Prisons: Lessons from the Movement Against ...

Silky Shah is a longtime organizer and executive director of Detention Watch Network. Her new book, Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, published by Haymarket Books on May 7, is an ...

"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 ...

“Approximately one in seventy 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 ...