Precisely thatwhich is advantageous to those coiporations, elected officials, and government agents who have obvious stakes inthe expansion of these systems begets grief and devastationfor poor and racially dominated communities in the UnitedStates and throughout the world.

When many young people decide to join the military service in order to avoid the inevitability of a stint inprison, it should cause us to wonder whether we should nottry to introduce better alternatives

Most people arequite surprised to hear that the prison abolition movementalso has a long history—one that dates back to the historicalappearance of the prison as the main form of punishment.

I remember speaking of water protectors, the folks standing up for all life with their bodies, minds, and hearts, sitting behind bars as the world burned and the seas rose. Here we are.

When my eyes close, I see blood pouring down the face of a young woman hit in the head by a so-called less-lethal munition, tracks of chemically-induced tears on cheeks, and a giant drill out of a sci-fi movie boring through a river behind a line of police.