Society / Prisons

Community organizations are helping keep people safe where the police fail. Here are some examples from Puerto Rico, Brazil and the US.

England’s schools funnel its most marginalized young people towards the criminal justice system, writes Zahra Bei. But abolitionists are reimagining what’s possible.

Sarah Lamble explores the opportunities to challenge punitive logic in our day-to-day lives and replace it with social justice.

Writing from a Californian prison, Jessie Milo sets out his vision for a more caring society.

From stopping criminalizing poverty to taking down the prison-industrial-complex.

Mass imprisonment and merciless policing were the preferred tools of control for European colonizers. Patrick Gathara explores the legacy left in Kenya.

Campaigns, groups, media, and further reading on Abolition.

Can we create a world where we don’t turn to police and prisons for justice? Amy Hall explores the movement offering a different vision for the future.

Prisons damage people and have always been used by the powerful to control the most marginalized. But when some criminals undoubtedly pose great danger to others, can society really do away with incarceration altogether? Kelsey Mohamed and Andrew Neilson go head to head.

Penal labour is still big bucks.

A community group is campaigning to turn the London borough of Haringey into a safer place for migrants. Charlotte England reports.

The West finds much to celebrate about the country, but it has the largest prison population in the Middle East and world’s highest per-capita use of teargas. Zoe Holman reports on the state of Bahrain.

Around 2.3 million US citizens are behind bars - a number that dwarfs any other country, reports Mark Engler.

Rowenna Davis meets a guard and an inmate from the notorious US prison camp in Cuba.

It’s difficult to know for sure how many political prisoners there currently are in China, but it’s safe to say that there are thousands of them.