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For Survivors of Prison Rape, Saying ‘Me Too’ Isn’t an Option
Content note: This piece contains detailed descriptions of sexual assault. Rodney Smith said the two men who cornered him on his first day in a Louisiana jail a decade ago were big. At age 23, he had...
View ArticleThe Case for Delegitimizing the Police
The institution of policing doesn’t deserve the unquestioned authority and purpose people give it in the United States. Fraud, corruption, and violence are too common for the institution and the...
View ArticleIn Northern California, ‘Race Baiting’ Takes Center Stage in Heated District...
UPDATE, June 6, 10:14 a.m.: Nancy O’Malley on Tuesday won the county district attorney race with 59 percent of the vote. “Race-baiting” tactics have roiled a Northern California district attorney race...
View ArticleReproductive Control: The Enduring State Violence Against Incarcerated Black...
Recent efforts to mobilize communities around the ways in which incarceration affects Black women, such as the Black Mama’s Bail Out campaign and SisterSong’s anti-shackling campaign, offer an...
View ArticleNew York City Reunites Incarcerated Mothers With Their Kids While Trump Rips...
While the Trump administration took children from their parents at the southern border, New York City on Tuesday reunited jailed women with their kids in a unique family event on Rikers Island. Angela...
View ArticleNew Lawsuit Challenges Illegal ‘Debtors’ Prison’ System in Arkansas County
A new class action lawsuit alleges that a state court judge has created an illegal debtor’s prison system in White County, Arkansas. The suit is the latest in a nationwide string of lawsuits...
View ArticleGrandma Underground: The 80,000 Kids in Kin Care
Over the past two years, Norma Hatfield has collected stories: One grandmother, living on a $700 per month disability check, who woke up to the state delivering six kids to her doorstep in the middle...
View Article‘You Don’t Even Treat Animals the Way I Was Treated’: Pregnant and Incarcerated
Tuesday Olson had just learned she was pregnant when she was arrested and jailed for failing to appear in court for a traffic violation in Durango, Colorado. She was immediately worried about not being...
View ArticleIn Utah Jails, a Rare Reproductive Rights Bright Spot Emerges
Access to health care for people who are incarcerated is constitutionally guaranteed. But in practice, reproductive care is highly variable in U.S. prisons and jails. Despite the majority of women in...
View ArticleMeet the Formerly Incarcerated Advocates Revolutionizing Giving Birth in Prison
During her time in prison, Topeka K. Sam suffered through untreated uterine fibroids and a surgery that did not relieve them and caused excessive bleeding. Meanwhile, the commissary limited the amount...
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