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The Ex-Worker #8: Prison Abolition
From Crimethinc. Though a week late (sorry!), the eighth episode of the Ex-Worker is our longest yet, and wraps up our series on prisons and police, as we look at ways to dismantle the prison...
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Ben Turk on Insurgent Theatre & Prison Abolition
From The Final Straw This week’s episode is a conversation with Ben Turk. Ben’s a co-founder of Insurgent Theatre, the decade-old theater troop that has presented a number of original and refurbished...
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Against Carceral Feminism
From Jacobin / By Victoria Law Relying on state violence to curb domestic violence only ends up harming the most marginalized women. Cherie Williams, a thirty-five-year-old African-American woman in...
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Police “Reforms” You Should Always Oppose…
From US Prison Culture I read today that President Obama has offered some measures for ‘reforming’ the police. Here is a simple guide for evaluating any suggested ‘reforms’ of U.S. policing in this...
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Learning from Ferguson: A World Without Police
From Counterpunch – by Peter Gelderloos In two previous essay, I discussed the role of the Left in protecting the police through cautious reformism, and the effectiveness of a pacified, falsified—in a...
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Imagine a World Without Prisons: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Superheroes, and...
From The Abolitionist / By Walidah Imarisha “And then the orcs stage an uprising and seize the means of production, since they are not only the soldiers, they are also the exploited labor of Middle...
View ArticleWe must disband the police: Body cameras aren’t enough — only radical change...
The courts, the media, and the political system are designed to back killer cops. Only radical change will work From Salon/ By GEORGE CICCARIELLO-MAHER After Michael Slager gunned down Walter Scott in...
View ArticleThe Death Penalty Is Cruel. But So Is Life Without Parole.
From The New Republic / By Stephen Lurie Prison cells don’t attract many spectators, but executions have always drawn crowds. Paradoxically, the names and identities of death row inmates only come to...
View ArticleBipartisan Unity on Mass Incarceration: Opportunity or Sidetrack for Movement...
From Truth Out / By James Kilgore Mass incarceration continues to trend. As Heather Thompson, professor of history at the University of Michigan and leading scholar on the Attica prison rebellion, told...
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