Imprisoned People Can Do More than ‘Scare’ Kids ‘Straight’
“Scared straight” programs don’t work. But that doesn’t mean incarcerated people shouldn’t mentor at-risk kids.
Alternatives to Incarceration
Antoine Davis, Christopher Blackwell
Prisoners Like Me Have a Responsibility to Mentor At-Risk Kids
In prison, I’ve done work to come to terms with the pain I’ve both felt and caused. Hopefully, my story—and others like it—can deter younger children from making the same mistakes.
Inside Vermont’s Radical Approach to Helping the Formerly Incarcerated Succeed
State policies nearly everywhere banish those with a sexual offense in their past. Vermont does the opposite by building communities around them—with dramatically positive results.
Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety
In Healing Justice Lineages, Cara Page and Erica Woodland document a history of care models that don’t involve the prison industrial complex.
Here’s What LA County is Doing—And Not Doing—to Move People With Mental Illness Out of Jail
America’s largest county has launched numerous initiatives to shrink its jail population and divert people with mental illness from jail entirely. Here’s an explainer on what the major initiatives are and what, if any, progress has been made.
Mass incarceration is slavery. Abolition is a vision for the future.
No system designed to make money by subjugating people intends to rid us of those harms. Abolition is a vision for the future.
How ‘Alternatives to Incarceration’—Like Probation—Expand Criminalization
In September, an Iowa judge sentenced Pieper Lewis, a Black teenager who was trafficked and sexually assaulted, to community supervision after she pleaded guilty to stabbing one of her abusers to death. Some hailed the sentence as compassionate. But facts about supervision say otherwise.