Bill de Blasio and the correctional officers’ union say the crisis at Rikers Island is about understaffing. But no number of guards will solve the underlying problems with the jail.

Prison gerrymandering, in which incarcerated people are designated as residents of the areas where a prison or jail is located, is a system of strategic disenfranchisement.

A turn toward nationalism following the MAGA storm on D.C. erases the Black radical tradition of rebellion—and endangers its future.

“Defund the police” is not an austerity measure. It’s a demand that we put police department budgets to better use.

Organizers and thinkers on where we are in the major fights of our moment—from prison abolition to climate justice and the housing crisis—and where we go next.

We are facing a series of contradictions, expressed in big and small ways. Learn the wrong lessons, and we’re doomed.

To build community support, organizers in L.A. flipped the message—and tactic—from taking money away from cops to locking in funds for everything else. Will it work?

Jacob Blake was critically injured when cops shot him in the back on Sunday. Six years ago, a new law was supposed to bring change.

A bail fund to help free detained Muslims finds new urgency as Covid-19 spreads rapidly through prisons and jails.

From manufacturing hand sanitizer to processing chicken, incarcerated workers face extreme risk for virtually no pay.

A long prison sentence can’t repair the harm he caused for dozens of women over many decades. What would it look like to demand more?