• Magazine

    Who is a prisoner?

    From psychiatric facilities to youth detention centres, the prison keeps growing. To abolish prisons, organizers first need to map the system.

  • Magazine

    The dangerous illusion of the humane prison

    The right of trans prisoners in Canada to self-identify their gender is an important win. How can it be used to fuel – and not drain – our efforts towards a future without prisons?

  • Magazine

    Process of depression

    In 2016, Nicholas Dinardo was arrested and sent to remand at the Regina Correctional Centre. After remaining in segregation for most of the last year, he wrote this poem.

  • Magazine

    Abolition Architecture

    Architect Tings Chak on imagining and designing a world without prisons.

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    Jail, innovated

    The new Toronto South Detention Centre asks us to view imprisonment as high-tech innovation.