Incarceration & Prisons Archives – Scalawag

Incarcerated Muslims in Florida celebrated Eid with limited accommodations

by Anthony Cobb and Khawla Nakua May 2, 2022May 4, 2022

During the month of Ramadan, Muslims worldwide participate in ritual fasting and communal celebrations. The 10,000 Muslims incarcerated in Florida's prisons struggle to do so under discriminatory accommodations.

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Florida's legacy of slow-rolling parole keeps thousands of people behind bars—some, for decades past their eligibility date

by Justin Garcia October 28, 2021March 9, 2022

Contraband Books: What Texas prisons have against Michelle Alexander, Frederick Douglass, and Alice Walker

by Julie Poole September 28, 2021September 28, 2021

In portraits and letters: 'Being free is not the same as freedom'

by Jason Kerzinski August 17, 2021August 30, 2021

Abolition made practical

by Alysia Nicole Harris July 6, 2021July 6, 2021

Salt, Soil, & Supper: From cell to soil

by Xander Peters June 30, 2021

A prisoner's apothecary: Solitary Gardens reimagines six-by-nine cells

by Roshan Abraham, Next City June 30, 2021June 30, 2021

'Who would want their child to miss everything?'

by Ko Bragg and JS June 25, 2021June 25, 2021

In Photos: Desde Adentro (From Within)

by ITAMA Youth June 24, 2021June 24, 2021

Southern Politics

Qualified Immunity: How 'ordinary police work' tramples civil rights

by Lyle C. May June 23, 2021October 18, 2021

Two letters from North Carolina prisons make the same demands—45 years apart.

by Anne C. Willett & A.L. Harris June 22, 2021June 23, 2021

Welcome to Abolition Week

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors June 21, 2021June 23, 2021

Scalawag Updates

Virtual Event: Join Scalawag for Realizing Abolition

by Scalawag Team June 11, 2021June 23, 2021

Southern Politics

Bad medicine in Louisiana prisons

by Xander Adams May 5, 2021April 13, 2022

Reporter's Notebook: The Power of Proximity

by Ko Bragg February 12, 2021February 12, 2021

Southern Politics

Court fees and fines make voting near-impossible for ex-felons in Tennessee

by Iliana Hagenah December 22, 2020January 5, 2021

North Carolina's Racial Justice Act can remove prisoners from death row. But is life without parole actual justice?

by Lyle C. May October 26, 2020

Southern Politics

ICE-detained asylum-seekers on hunger strike amid COVID-19 face solitary confinement

by Frances Madeson September 1, 2020September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

Birmingham increases police budget by $11.2M despite demands to defund: 'People literally cannot breathe, and it's not because of George Floyd'

by Katherine Webb-Hehn August 31, 2020January 21, 2021

'Imagine not just the end of prisons, but the end of a society that could have prisons'

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 26, 2020March 15, 2022

Perspectives on incarceration and abolition you should be listening to

by Alysia Nicole Harris August 21, 2020March 15, 2022

Letter from a New Normal: Finding hope in purgatory

by DANTE August 20, 2020March 15, 2022

If your name ever falls on a prison roster: What I know now.

by EDUARDO MARTINEZ August 19, 2020March 15, 2022

Field Notes from the Inside: Women in Florida prisons share glimpses of COVID-19 lockdowns

by MARINA BUENO & BOUDICCA August 18, 2020March 15, 2022

Scalawag Updates

Introducing Abolition Week

by Scalawag Team and Scalawag Editors August 17, 2020March 15, 2022

Scalawag Updates

(Past) Virtual event—Casting Shadows: the prison in our daily lives

by Scalawag Team August 14, 2020March 15, 2022

Southern Politics

Alabama wrote the book on Black Lives Matter, but today's challenges to defund police have Freedom Fighters back at the drawing board

by Katherine Webb-Hehn August 14, 2020September 16, 2020

Southern Politics

Amidst COVID-19, Louisiana parents and advocates are working to bring detained youth home

by Frances Madeson for the Louisiana Illuminator July 27, 2020September 16, 2020

Modern abolition and the lasting truth of change

by Scalawag Editors June 18, 2020April 16, 2021

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Free the press in prisons, too

by Lyle C. May June 15, 2020September 16, 2020