Prisons
‘They are really killing me in here’—Michigan women’s prison under scrutiny
February 10, 2022The Huron Valley Women’s Correctional Facility has been described as a “special hell” with a culture of “rape punishment” against inmates.
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Michigan, mass incarceration, and the new surveillance society
February 1, 2022In a stage of capitalism where outsourcing and deindustrialization have devastated Michigan's manufacturing economy, small towns across the state have come to rely on a racist system of mass incarceration for their economic livelihood.
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Debtors prisons: In Mississippi, judges can lock you up for owing money
January 13, 2022Most states have gotten rid of such programs, but not Mississippi. Judges here sentence hundreds of people a year to four restitution centers around the state.
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The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival: ‘Attica’ revisited
October 22, 2021Law and order vs. anarchy was the perceived battle, but the evil of mass incarceration was exposed and prison reform was put on the agenda.
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Abolition Writing: A People’s World workshop on writing to end mass incarceration
September 13, 2021September 17, 2021 - 7pm ET
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