Incarceration & Prisons Archives – Scalawag

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

by Lyle May October 26, 2020

The salvaged law converts death sentences to life without parole as relief from racist trial practices. But writer and death row prisoner Lyle May says life without parole is just 'silent execution.'

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

by Frances Madeson September 1, 2020September 16, 2020

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, 2020September 16, 2020

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

by Alysia Harris August 26, 2020October 1, 2020

Perspectives on incarceration and abolition you should be listening to

by Alysia Harris August 21, 2020December 3, 2020

Letter from a New Normal: Finding hope in purgatory

by DANTE August 20, 2020December 3, 2020

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

by EDUARDO MARTINEZ August 19, 2020December 3, 2020

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

by MARINA BUENO & BOUDICCA August 18, 2020October 1, 2020

Introducing Abolition Week

by Scalawag Team August 17, 2020November 2, 2020

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

by Scalawag Team August 14, 2020October 9, 2020

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

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 Team June 18, 2020December 3, 2020

Free the press in prisons, too

by Lyle May June 15, 2020September 16, 2020

Defunding police: Atlanta shows politicians' promises don't equal change

by Anna Simonton June 9, 2020September 16, 2020

Abolishing parole led to COVID-19 'tinderbox' in NC prisons

by Lyle May May 18, 2020October 1, 2020

Without visits or confidential calls, Louisiana prisoners can't access legal help

by Katie Fernelius May 8, 2020September 16, 2020

How the right to vote became a weapon of exclusion

by Andrew Dilts May 4, 2020September 16, 2020

'We don't want to die here.' Detained immigrants protest amid pandemic

by Carly Berlin April 6, 2020September 16, 2020

How Louisiana's oil and gas industry uses prison labor

by Carly Berlin March 24, 2020October 27, 2020

Detainment centers are not equipped to handle the coronavirus, experts say

by Anna Simonton March 16, 2020September 16, 2020

'Starve the Beast': Southern campaigns to divest, decarcerate, and re-imagine public safety

by Zaina Alsous November 4, 2019September 16, 2020

Social Struggle Is a Way of Life: An Interview with Albert Woodfox

by Zaina Alsous August 19, 2019September 16, 2020

Toxic Confinement

by Sessi Kuwabara Blanchard July 15, 2019October 27, 2020

A letter to Black mamas

by Courtney Sebring and Aaron Bryant May 13, 2019October 1, 2020

Life without parole is 'silent execution'

by Lyle May December 31, 2018November 12, 2020

Whether Fences or Not

by Jacob Davis December 31, 2018September 16, 2020

Measures meant to make North Carolina prisons safer are doing the opposite

by Lyle May October 29, 2018October 1, 2020

'If free people are not allowed to have unions, how are prisoners to have unions?': Conversations with organizers of the North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union

by Jonathan Michels July 5, 2018September 16, 2020

'Prisoners' organizations were thought to be dangerous.': Conversations with organizers of the North Carolina Prisoners' Labor Union

by Jonathan Michels June 26, 2018September 16, 2020