One of the most detailed accounts of the operation of prisons in England was published 100 years ago this year. Entitled English Prisons To-day, it provided a powerful indictment of the state of the country’s penal system, and as John Moore writes, it remains as relevant today as when it was written.
Camila Valle interviews Selma James about feminism, anti-imperialism, and a lifetime of international Marxist organizing.
An interview with Angela Davis in October 1970 from the Women's House of Detention, New York.
This year's ongoing nationwide prison strike demonstrates the upsurge in a movement that is “self-organized, independent, and fighting against the brutality of the prison system.”
Ruth Wilson Gilmore discusses the function of prisons under racial capitalism, abolitionist organizing, mass incarceration and class struggle, and what has changed since the publication of Golden Gulag.
In this Weekend Reads excerpt from Lockdown High, Annette Fuentes reconstructs the history of school violence in the US, as both a fact and a concept, from the nineteenth century onwards.
McKenzie Wark looks at Jackie Wang's new book on carceral capitalism, the predatory state, municipal plunder, and algorithmic governance.
A compact, printable summary of the US War on Drugs by historian Jeremy Kuzmarov.
The republication of If They Come in the Morning is an invitation to pick up the work documented in the book.
For too long the field of criminology in general, and police studies in particular, has cut itself off from larger questions of justice.
The unprecedented prison expansion over the last four decades is inconceivable outside the context of mass antiracist and class struggle and the state’s crushing of the urban insurrections of the 1960s.
“Black women will save us!” has become a kind of liberal refrain following the presidential election (where 94% of Black women voters supported Clinton) and the emergence of Maxine Waters and Kamala Harris as congressional gadflies.