New York City implemented a police surveillance transparency law, but activists are divided on if it helps or hurts their cause.

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, jailhouse lawyers have struggled for safety measures, and against restrictions on privileges and mobility.

This article was funded by the Marvel Cooke Fellowship. Read more about this reporting project and make a contribution to fund our fellowship budget. In 2019, New York City made the historic pledge to shutter the 89-year-old Rikers Island jail complex by 2026. In the years since, budget restrictions and

Abolitionist organizers are building global solidarity, navigating a wide range of challenges from language to selective anti-imperialism.

As Georgia moves into the next phase of the pandemic, it is becoming clear that the state’s incarcerated population has actually increased despite releases spurred by COVID-19. While state prison officials tout a “new vision” for parole released just earlier this year, underneath it all exists an arbitrary and unfair

Down Home is organizing an anti-jail movement in a seemingly unlikely place: rural and conservative North Carolina.