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The audit found that the state’s medical examiners “often failed to acknowledge restraint as a potential contributing factor” when restrained by police and "often failed to appropriately classify homicides” when the people who died were non-white.

The pandemic bared the cruelty of prison in new ways. It was a lost opportunity to move away from mass incarceration.

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Fifty years after the official end of U.S. intervention in southeast Asia, “Vietnam vets are still the single largest population of war veterans in prison.

A commitment to the well-being of whole generations, from children to grandparents demand that we stop this forcible separation of families, and as we work to abolish systems, that we support one another, meeting needs together, loudly and proudly. 

Since the end of the Civil War, the United States has found ways to disenfranchise Black voters. It started with literacy tests and poll taxes and threats of racist violence. Now, it’s through voter suppression laws and mass incarceration. 

Wrist-Slaps for Racist Terrorists (1964), Stop Global Warming! (2009), An ‘October Surprise’ for the Ages (1924), Nothing New About ‘Lock ‘em Up!’ (1994), Integrated Schools – ‘Just Around the Corner’ (1969)

The right to participate in the conduct of public affairs, which includes the right to vote and to be elected, is at the very heart of democratic governments based on the will of the people, according to the United Nations.

Victoria Law’s new book is an accessible primer on abolitionist theory, told through intimate stories of prison life in the pandemic.