“The Media Emboldens a Police State”: A conversation with movement lawyer Olayemi Olurin Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg
How Prison Abolitionists Are Meeting The Moment The COVID-19 pandemic and nationwide protests over police brutality are strengthening the case against mass incarceration, advocates argue. Emily Nonko
The Bumpy Road to Police Abolition Protesters and activists have categorically changed the national conversation about public safety. Now they have to figure out how to change public policy. Ted Alcorn
Defund The Baltimore Police A former Baltimore cop questions how a department with a nearly half-billion-dollar budget that is riven by rampant corruption and brutality, bloated overtime spending, and unaccounted for patrol officers can continue to justify its existence Larry Smith
The Appeal Podcast Episode 7: What Abolitionists Mean When They Talk About Abolition With William C. Anderson, journalist and co-author of As Black As Resistance. Adam H. Johnson
Responses to Violence Must Move Beyond Policing The solution to problems like unsolved homicides, especially in communities of color, cannot be reinvestment in institutions that wage violence against them. William C. Anderson
How the Push to Close Rikers Went From No Jails To New Jails Activists say a once-radical campaign has been co-opted. Raven Rakia, Ashoka Jegroo
The Sentencing of Larry Nassar Was Not ‘Transformative Justice.’ Here’s Why. For those of us who believe our “justice” system must be transformed, moments such as this one are a test of conviction. Kelly Hayes, Mariame Kaba
