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Published in: openDemocracyUK: OpinionWhy feminists should support the struggle for prison and police abolitionPrisons and police don’t protect women – particularly women of colour – from male violence. In fact they expose them...
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Published in: TransformationIt’s not prisoners but prisons that need rehabilitatingA new book sheds light on the past, present and future of incarceration.
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Published in: TransformationHow to help inmates heal after the trauma of prisonHalf of all prisoners in American jails suffer from some sort of psychiatric disorder. Can prayer and meditation...
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Published in: TransformationHow prisoners organized to elect a just District Attorney in PhiladelphiaWinning political victories doesn’t always require a shift to the center; how about putting those affected by...
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Published in: TransformationThe town that adopted trauma-informed care—and saw a decrease in crime and suspensionEmpathy and redemption are far more effective than punishment and incarceration.
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Published in: TransformationFacing up to our shadow side with compassionRestorative justice makes real the fact that conflict, pain, suffering and crime are part of all our lives.
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Published in: TransformationWhat’s the point of prison?Well over half of all prisoners in the UK have personality disorders and other mental health problems. What are we doing?
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Published in: TransformationDoes poverty cause crime?Socio-economic determinism is inadequate as an explanation of criminality.
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Published in: TransformationWhy shouldn’t the law ignore emotion?If the justice system becomes an assembly line devoid of feelings, reconciliation and social justice will suffer.
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Published in: TransformationHow an underground hip hop artist and his book club threaten Angola's regimeThis week 17 Angolan activists received jail sentences for participating in a book club. Here's why. Português
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Published in: TransformationThe radical work of healing: Fania and Angela Davis on a new kind of civil rights activism"Self-care and healing and attention to the body and the spiritual dimension – all of this is now a part of radical...
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Published in: TransformationShaker Aamer and the future of GuantanamoHis fear, to his last days at Guantanamo, was that he would not make it out alive.
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Published in: TransformationWhy I glued myself to a ticket barrier and shut down the EurostarLast Friday I joined 300 migrants' rights protesters gathered at St Pancras station, spilling fake blood and...
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Published in: TransformationWhat will it take to shut down Yarl's Wood?Hundreds of people will protest against the locking up and abuse of women at Yarl's Wood detention centre.
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Published in: Transformation40 acres and a mule would be at least $6.4 trillion today: what the US really owes Black AmericaSlavery made America wealthy, and racist policies since have blocked African-American wealth-building. Can we...
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Published in: TransformationCan the prison system be transformed? Shaka Senghor and #Cut50A new campaign to be launched on March 26 aims to cut the U.S. prison population in half by 2025.
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Published in: TransformationRape culture: would prison abolition help women?What would transformative justice for survivors look like? Part of Transformation's prison abolition series.
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Published in: TransformationThere is no such thing as prison reform: an interview with CeCe McDonaldCeCe McDonald was sent to prison for defending herself against a hate crime. On the one year anniversary of her...
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Published in: TransformationFrom Weather Underground activist to life in prisonEven in a just war we need to feel the pain and tragedy of losses on the other side. And in the Brink's robbery our...
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Published in: TransformationRestoring justice to AmericaThe United States is a violent nation. The police are part of this problem. They have to be part of the solution.
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