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Erica Caines , Clau O'Brien Moscoso
Prison Imperialism: A Critical Examination of Bukele’s Deal with the U.S
19 Feb 2025
The deal for a prisoner exchange proposed by the El Salvadoran president presents a dangerous threat to incarcerated people in the U.S. The continued outsourcing of the U.S. penal system signals the…
Shaka Shakur
The New Modern Day Militarized Fort!
03 Apr 2024
The wave of cop cities being constructed across the nation must be analyzed through the lens of settler colonialism and the state's effort to maintain its dominance by expanding the police state.
Jesse Barber , Simon McCormack
A Racial Disparity Across New York That is Truly Jarring
04 Jan 2023
Black people are disproportionately convicted of felonies across New York State. In Manhattan, a Black person is 21 times more likely to be convicted of a crime than a white person.
The Mapping Project
Prison in Plain Sight: Visualizing the Economic Veins That Fuel Our Carceral Reality
13 Jul 2022
The prison system links corporate interests, the military industrial complex, and policing into a web of oppression impacting more than 2 million people in this country. The Mapping Project reports…
Michael Sainato
Corporations are Making Millions of Dollars From U.S. Prison Labor
25 Jan 2022
A Freedom of Information Act request shines a light on how much private corporations and government agencies have been exploiting prison labor during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Alex Skopic
The American Prison System’s War on Reading
07 Dec 2021
Incarcerated people are banned from reading books with themes of Black liberation or leftist content.