The Plantation Never Closed
Alabama’s prison system is a modern-day plantation, exploiting Black labor for profit while stripping them of their political power and voice.
Kevin ‘Rashid’ Johnson: Radical Writer and Activist Demands Prison Abolition
Kevin “Rashid” Johnson is an incarcerated writer, artist, and activist who advocates for prison reform and revolutionary struggle, and in his poem “Are We There Yet?” he describes a utopian world free from greed, deception, and oppression.
Four States Vote to End Slavery as Criminal Punishment
by Robert J. Hansen (Sacramento, CA) Four out of five states banned slavery as criminal punishment in…
Guest Commentary: Is Prison Labor Involuntary Servitude?
By Rob Sharp A FORMER OREGON prisoner wrote an article in the April/May edition of Esquire magazine….
The Real Cost of Prison Labor Is an Ethical Problem
By Jacqueline Nguyen UNITED STATES— In the United States, countless large corporations benefit from prison labor. Unfortunately,…