Interrupting Cycles of Harm, Inside and Outside Prison Walls
Formerly incarcerated mental health care providers are supplementing traditional resources for those still in prison鈥攚ith mutually beneficial results.
Criminal justice reform
Why Is Breonna Taylor鈥檚 Father Still in Prison After Decades?
Everette Taylor has been as good a father as the prison system has allowed. He鈥檚 one of millions of Americans who remains incarcerated for far too long.
Why Everette Taylor Is a Victim of Our War on Drugs
Breonna Taylor's father, who remained close to all six children, including Breonna while she was alive, is being held in a Michigan prison. An incarcerated writer makes the case for Everette鈥檚 freedom.
In Conversation with Everette Taylor, Breonna Taylor鈥檚 Father
Everette Taylor didn鈥檛 get to say goodbye to his daughter. Stuck behind prison walls, Taylor speaks with 精东影业 about how he remains connected to his surviving children despite decades of incarceration.
A Chicago Neighborhood Is Redefining Toxicity in Pursuit of Environmental Justice
Since 2000, toxic tours in this community have evolved from talking about pollution, to now include systemic racism, policing, and mass incarceration.
Reforming Laws From Behind Bars
Prison reformists鈥攎any of whom are serving long sentences鈥攈ave united to change the cruel and arbitrary carceral system.
Preventing Prison and Recidivism
These three activists are working to support people at risk of either going to prison for the first time or returning to prison after release.
Activists Working to Defund Baltimore鈥檚 Police Face Roadblocks
The city鈥檚 activists have seen varying levels of success in housing and food justice. But justice for police abuse remains elusive. Here鈥檚 why.
Incarcerated Seniors Deserve a Chance to Come Home for the Holidays
Years of 鈥渢ough-on-crime鈥� policies have resulted in growing numbers of elderly people remaining in prison for decades. It鈥檚 past time to enact policies that help them come home.
A New Podcast Aims to Shift the Narrative on Police Abolition by Centering Movement Voices
The podcast, produced by the Detroit Justice Center, highlights how organizers are engaged in the hard work of abolishing police and prisons, and offers a counter-narrative to mainstream media reports.
Abolition Through the Ages: Reform Versus Transformation, Then and Now
Just as slavery couldn鈥檛 be reformed and had to be ended, policing can鈥檛 be reformed and has to be abolished, say leaders of modern-day abolitionist movements.
Planting a Life鈥攁nd a Future鈥擜fter Prison
The residential and employment program on a North Carolina organic farm helps formerly incarcerated women find a new path.
How Capital Punishment Fell Out of Favor
Changes in public attitudes toward the death penalty include factors like technological change and urbanization. But strategic actions by impassioned advocates can appeal to the public鈥檚 compassion.
How 鈥淪olitary Gardens鈥� Help Envision a World Without Prisons
Volunteers team up with people currently held in solitary confinement to build empathy, compassion, and advocacy for a world without prisons.
What Does Accountability Look Like Without Punishment?
It鈥檚 not easy, but it is possible.
Formerly Incarcerated People in West Virginia Find Community Support
A network of government agencies and community service organizations have created a program to help formerly incarcerated people navigate life outside prison.
Is Justice on the Horizon for Missing and Murdered Indigenous People?
Indigenous activists see Deb Haaland鈥檚 leadership as an opportunity to re-imagine justice and safety in the U.S.
We Don鈥檛 Need Prisons to Make Us Safer
To the statement that prisons provide safety, we should ask, 鈥淪afety for whom? And from what?鈥�
A World Without the Death Penalty
A veteran activist describes the international movement to abolish capital punishment.
Where Incarceration Isn鈥檛 the Answer
Frustrations with the U.S. prison system have prompted a global search for alternatives. Yet the solution might not be as simple as 鈥渂e like Scandinavia.鈥�
How Formerly Incarcerated Firefighters Are Getting the Jobs and Pay They Deserve
In California鈥檚 most catastrophic wildfire season yet, an organization is challenging the state to hire firefighters who were previously incarcerated to help meet public safety needs.
Police Encounters During Mental Health Crises Don’t Have to Be Violent
In the wake of another police killing of an unarmed Black man struggling with a mental health disability, I asked what cops鈥攁nd everyone鈥攃an do to help.
Rochester Police Killed an Unarmed Black Man Having a Mental Health Crisis
鈥淚 placed the phone call for my brother to get help, not for my brother to get lynched," says Joseph Prude.
Why Police Reform Is Not Enough
The focus on reforms like improved training doesn鈥檛 solve racially biased policing. That鈥檚 because of the nature of policing itself.
How a Community Rallied to Change Prison Rules During COVID-19
There鈥檚 a mentality in prisons that places more value on power than protecting human life and we need to talk about that.
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