Stanford Social Innovation Review asks, “What Really Makes Us Safe?”
An excerpt from the book Rich Thanks to Racism addresses shifting investments in mass criminalization to multidisciplinary systems of care. “For example, in the early…
Category: Prison Industrial Complex
The Healing Journey: from Incarceration to Healing Artist with Alex Anderson
Join us to hear the personal story of Alexander Anderson: his time spent incarcerated, his journey to becoming a Social Worker, to finding the profound…
Dying of Heat in Prison: Climate Change and Incarceration
In a quite devastating article and documentary from 2017, The Marshall Project tells us stories of incarcerated and their families, lawsuits, and the denial of…
A New Lease on Life – People Convicted of Violent Crimes Are Rarely Rearrested for New Violent Crimes
Analysis from a new report by the Sentencing Project, released June 30, 2021, show most state-level studies show that people who are released from life…
Quintin Jones Is Not Innocent. But He Doesn’t Deserve to Die.
Quintin Jones was sentenced to death for the murder of his Great Aunt in 1999, committed when he was under the influence of drugs. His…
Ben & Jerry’s on the PIC (Prison Industrial Complex)
Hi Friends! Ben & Jerry’s published a powerful and concise article on the PIC (Prison Industrial Complex). In it, they link to some well-researched and…
How to Dismantle Mass Incarceration
UnCommon Law and ChangeLawyers partnered to deliver a series of webinars on mass incarceration, with an intentional focus on BIPOC Communities. You can view the…
PRISON YOGA PROJECT: CREATING ACCESS TO HEALING AND RECOVERY
If you’re new to Prison Yoga Project, this would be a beautiful article to read to orient you into the modality and birth of this…
Book Review – Beyond Survival: Stories and Strategies from the Transformative Justice Movement
Review of Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement co-edited by Ejeris Dixon and Leah Lakshi Piepzna-Samarasinh by Lesley Becker We’re reblogging…
Rewriting Myths of Public Safety with Victoria Law
Victoria Law, author of Prison by Any Other Name and her most recent title, Prisons Make Us Safer, is interviewed about her work, who inspires…