Want to Fight Mass Incarceration? Start With Your Local Jail Want to Fight Mass Incarceration? Start With Your Local Jail
A new collection of essays from academics and activists devoted to prison abolition focuses on the quiet but rapid expansion of the carceral system in small towns and municipaliti...
Apr 25, 2024 / Books & the Arts / Jarrod Shanahan
Bringing a Seminal Palestinian Resistance Novel to the World Bringing a Seminal Palestinian Resistance Novel to the World
Talking with the translators of Wissam Rafeedie's The Trinity of Fundamentals, a book whose genesis is as extraordinary as its contents.
Apr 19, 2024 / Q&A / Rayan El Amine
O.J. Simpson Proved That With Enough Money You Can Get Away With Murder O.J. Simpson Proved That With Enough Money You Can Get Away With Murder
The accused killer won and lost in court depending on his bank account.
Apr 12, 2024 / Jeet Heer
End the Persecution of Julian Assange End the Persecution of Julian Assange
The fifth anniversary of Assange’s imprisonment would be a good day for the Biden administration to end this sordid saga—before it ends the First Amendment.
Apr 11, 2024 / Chip Gibbons
Why I Continue to Write About Guantánamo Why I Continue to Write About Guantánamo
I’ve been covering the detention center since 2002, and I’ll continue to do so until it is eradicated—because I refuse to let this injustice be relegated to the past.
Apr 10, 2024 / Karen J. Greenberg
Pregnancy in Jails: A New Report Finds Flagrant Violations of Illinois Laws Pregnancy in Jails: A New Report Finds Flagrant Violations of Illinois Laws
Jails throughout Illinois continually deny, restrict, interfere with, or discriminate against pregnant people’s rights to reproductive care.
Mar 29, 2024 / Victoria Law
It’s Time to Compost the Prison Plantation It’s Time to Compost the Prison Plantation
How agriculture is used to make mass incarceration seem humanitarian.
Mar 20, 2024 / Joshua Sbicca and Carrie Chennault
Kentucky Is About to Pass the Cruelest Criminal-Justice Bill in America Kentucky Is About to Pass the Cruelest Criminal-Justice Bill in America
The state is making it easier to kill homeless people on private property—and that’s just one part of one of the most draconian crime bills in recent history.
Mar 15, 2024 / Paige Oamek and Rohan Montgomery
The Trumpian Consequences of Delaying Justice The Trumpian Consequences of Delaying Justice
Rather than rising to the moment, our courts seem to be succumbing to the uncertainty of it all.
Mar 6, 2024 / Karen J. Greenberg