The Movement for a Future Without Policing & Prisons

Only by dismantling unjust systems can we imagine a future that is healthy, just, and truly free

For centuries, people have been unwilling to grasp the concept that only by undoing the foundation can we build a new future

More than a century of countersurveillance methods emphasizes the importance of abolition

Exploring how copaganda empowers law enforcement to terrorize with impunity

In a candid conversation with Kiese Laymon, Mario Woods’ mother reflects on his life — and the violence that robbed him of his future

The militarization of police departments has only intensified an ongoing cycle of failure and oppression

Ableism forms and informs violence, oppression, and incarceration, yet it continues to be ignored by social justice movements

Policing in schools doesn’t just feed students to the carceral system — it corrupts the very nature of education

Why #SayHerName is crucial to the struggle for Black freedom

For 350 years, California has imprisoned and disenfranchised its Native peoples like few other places

LGBTQ activists have a long history of protesting against the violence of police and prisons

Under the cover of post-9/11 antiterrorism, the Department of Homeland Security has unleashed a carceral assault on immigrant families and…

The best way to curb pandemics like Covid-19 is to abolish the conditions that breed their spread

Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz and Russell Shoatz III share how they built an unshakable relationship in spite of incarceration and separation

For centuries, we’ve had our freedoms ripped from us. But like our ancestors, we resist.

President Clinton’ infamous 1994 crime bill is just one example of why reform never goes far enough — and often only exacerbates issues…

Reforms don’t create more just societies — just ones where more people of color are in charge of the violence

You can’t abolish systemic anti-Blackness and racial-colonial violence by protecting the system itself

Decades of reform have built an agile, deadly force that pushes millions of people into the largest carceral system in the world

The idea that we can resolve racism by integrating a fundamentally anti-Black institution in the U.S. is the most absurd notion of all

Far from loosening incarceration’s grip, modern tools like predictive policing and tracking apps have instead deepened the carceral state…