Philadelphia Protest Encampment Ends As City Agrees To Plan For Unhoused People
After months of organizing that included the establishment of two protest encampments, Philadelphia’s unhoused people successfully pushed the city to agree to provide housing on a community land trust on October 14.
Axon Ramps Up Sale Of Dart-Fired Tasers To US Prisons And Police Departments Around The World
Axon Inc., a $6 billion company known for body cameras and “Tasers,” claims to be making “rapid growth” in U.S. prisons and markets abroad.
Thousands Of Mathematicians Join Boycott Against Police Collaboration
Over 2,000 mathematicians have signed a letter agreeing to boycott all collaboration with police, and insisting their colleagues do the same.
Beyond Prisons Podcast: Challenging E-Carceration Feat. James Kilgore
Our conversation addresses a number of issues relating to e-carceration including how it deprives people of their liberty, why electronic monitoring is not better than prison, and the use of surveillance technology in the time of COVID-19.
Beyond Prisons Podcast: Prison By Any Other Name Feat. Maya Schenwar & Victoria Law
We discuss the fundamental issues with reform & the co-optation of abolitionist demands, how electronic monitoring denies people’s basic needs while shifting the costs of incarceration from the government onto the individual, why community policing is anti-community, and more.
Students Victimized By Police Are Conflicted Over NYPD Presence In Their Schools
Students see police as a source of violence and their only protection against it—a contradiction underscoring the need for new school safety models.
Beyond Prisons Podcast: An Abolitionist Focus Is A Feminine Focus Feat. Dr. Venezia Michalsen
Dr. Venezia Michalsen, an intersectional feminist criminologist, joins Kim Wilson to discuss gender and imprisonment, reentry, and the criminalization of women’s survival strategies.
Beyond Prisons: Dylan Rodríguez, Part II: Police Accountability Is Casualty Management
This is the second part of Beyond Prisons’ two-part conversation with professor, author, and abolitionist scholar Dr. Dylan Rodríguez.
Beyond Prisons: Abolition Is Our Obligation feat. Dylan Rodríguez
Professor, author, and abolitionist scholar Dr. Dylan Rodríguez joins Kim Wilson and Brian Sonenstein on an episode of the Beyond Prisons podcast.
For Black & Pink Organizers, Decarceration Must Grapple With Constant Violence Against LGBTQ+ People
Adam Mahoney profiles leadership of Black & Pink, a national abolitionist organization dismantling the carceral system and the harms caused to LGBTQ+ people.
