Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the wake of the 2020 Black Live Matter protests, many people are learning for the very first time about the concept of prison ...

Editor's note: A year ago, after the murder of George Floyd, the U.S. exploded with protests bringing attention to the scourge of police violence against African Americans. Initial calls to "defund ...

Student activists gathered to discuss prison abolition at a teach-in on Wednesday night, bringing forward their concerns with the prison-industrial complex and proposing ways to move toward its ...

What was your worst relationship like? Mine cost me over $55,000—and taught me important lessons about what it means to be an abolitionist in today’s society. Dre (not his real name) was largely ...

Danielle Sered, a restorative justice activist, advocated for prison abolition and extensive reforms to the current criminal justice system during an online Harvard Kennedy School event on Wednesday.

Prison abolition has long been popular among academic criminologists, sociologists, and scholar-activists like Angela Davis, but before May 2020, it would have been unthinkable for a mainstream ...

Abolitionists shared firsthand experiences with the prison-industrial complex as part of a community roundtable series hosted Tuesday by the Northwestern Prison Education Program. NPEP Director ...

No one deserves the dehumanizing treatment that’s endemic to our carceral system. I still want every lawless white supremacist Capitol insurrectionist to be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest ...

Check out our entire award-winning video series on reimagining the criminal legal system. What do successful alternatives to policing, prosecution, and prison actually look like? And how would they ...

The MLK celebration lecturer event bases its yearly theme on Dr. Martin Luther King’s beliefs and what resonates with today’s society and culture. Amid the political divide in the United States, one ...

God bless the woke, for they shall inherit the Earth. Or not. In the Sentinel Feb. 4 there was a piece about the opening of UCSC’s Institute of the Arts and Sciences gallery. Noted was a $2 million ...

In the wake of the 2020 Black Live Matter protests, many people are learning for the very first time about the concept of prison abolition and advocacy for incarcerated people. But many communities ...