Prisons
On becoming police and prison abolitionists: But what about the murderers?
February 25, 2022While a reader may find certain aspects of her argument worthy of debate, the fundamental value of Purnell’s book and intellectual approach is one of openness.
Read moreIndiana Communists make ending mass incarceration a key area of work
February 22, 2022The Communist Party and its youth wing are targeting the nation’s jails for elimination.
Read moreAmerica’s racist prison society produces profits but not safety
February 17, 2022The mass incarceration society isn’t working. Nearly 7 million people are locked up in the U.S., yet crime carries on.
Read more‘They are really killing me in here’—Michigan women’s prison under scrutiny
February 10, 2022The Huron Valley Women’s Correctional Facility has been described as a “special hell” with a culture of “rape punishment” against inmates.
Read moreMichigan, mass incarceration, and the new surveillance society
February 1, 2022In a stage of capitalism where outsourcing and deindustrialization have devastated Michigan's manufacturing economy, small towns across the state have come to rely on a racist system of mass incarceration for their economic livelihood.
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