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Disability and the prison system
It’s not a coincidence that so many prisoners are disabled – the system was designed that way.
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The case for a prisoners’ union
Organizing prisoner workers is the first step toward abolishing prisons.
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“We are fed the same way caged animals are”
To understand what life is like along the “continuum of confinement,” three people living in prisons and long-term care homes share the food they have eaten and eat every day.
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The dark side of prison food service
In Ohio, where Aramark is contracted to provide food to state prisons, the corporation seems more interested in profit than the safety and health of prisoners.
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From the plantation to the prison
Ohio’s reliance on for-profit prisons shows that slavery has never ended in America. Prisons have always been about herding, investing in, and marketing chattel for a profit.
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What does freedom feel like?
In unnaturally small prison cells, it’s common for prisoners’ eyesight to degrade due to a lack of stimulation, distance, and depth. It begs the question: which other senses does confinement diminish? To what degree? Do they come back?
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One less prison to be torn down
How prisoners helped stop the construction of a new prison camp in Kentucky
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Cosmetic change is not prison reform
“Prison reform” is an empty promise from politicians and corrections departments who have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo.
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Healed people heal people
In a world without prisons, we could break the vicious cycle of generational poverty, trauma, and incarceration.
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COVID and sexism in a women’s prison
Women have struggled to get what little we have in prison – but the COVID pandemic has stripped even that away.
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Abuse of authority
Correctional officers don’t help “correct” prisoners – most of them simply create an environment that’s toxic for both prisoners and other staff.
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Guilty until proven innocent
Living on remand, it’s important to know how to fight for your rights when the justice system breaks its own rules.
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Two poems from prison
No bullet, no sword, nor anything formed, / nothing short of a category 4 storm, / Could ever kill an Indian that’s immortal
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Death by a thousand cuts: Aging in Canadian prisons
Elderly prisoners need health care, not incarceration.
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On Therapeutic Community
Why punitive, coercive, and obedience-based drug treatment programs in prison don’t work.
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Fed up with being locked down
Prisons cause irreparable harm to the people inside them. Destroy the system before it can destroy more lives.
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Evidence of an unjust justice system
Governments criminalize poor people, and then allow companies to exploit prisoners’ basic needs for profit.