Along with a new understanding of what a just society looks like, say members of the Irish Penal Abolition Network.

A volunteer searching the archives of the American Baptist in Massachusetts has found a nearly 180-year-old document shedding ...

The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the ...

A growing hunger strike is underway in California’s prison system, launched by incarcerated individuals protesting what they ...

Hailed as the start of the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, the Stonewall Riots took place at New York City’s Stonewall Inn fifty-six years ago this month. On June 28, 1969, police attempted to arrest ...

Fringe movement sparks divide with push to charge women who get abortions ‘Abortion abolitionists’ are taking on traditional antiabortion forces, which have long been uncomfortable with the ...

Let’s unpack prison abolition and how the U.S. came to incarcerate 2 million people. The United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world, and people across the ...

As parent-led abolitionist groups urge us to recognize, the carceral system is itself one of the United States’s most massive perpetrators of harm and abuse against children, particularly indigenous ...

The self-described abolitionist movement was able to notch its earliest victories against scant organized opposition. But as it now works through its internal tensions it also faces potential ...

Prison abolition itself won't be on the ballot, but organizers are pushing demands that could change the lives of thousands if adopted by referendum voters or victorious candidates.

Ultimately, however, "The Problem with Prisons" by Erin I. Kelly argues that Shelby misreads the intentions of the abolition movement, and that while the penal system still so widely permeates ...