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Imprisoned People, COVID-19 and Insight from Behind the Walls
Left organizers are demanding protections for prisoners and immigrant detainees and prisoners themselves are making their voices heard in the 2020 election.
Criminal Justice Reform
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The Fight to End Money Bail: Lessons from Chicago
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Will Tanzman
For more than 15 years, Jerry Davis-El went back and forth between Cook County Jail, where he would be locked up while waiting for trail because…
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Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and Mass Incarceration: An Interview on Contemporary Social Movements with David Gilbert
In the 1960s and 1970s, many activists looked to the prisons for political leadership, while viewing prisons themselves as institutions of repression and social control integral to larger systems of oppression. Around the world, the prisoner emerged as an icon of state repression and a beacon of liberation.