As always, natural disasters are really human-disasters, exacerbating preexisting inequalities that people don’t want to talk about. With Covid, and for that matter with other communicable disea
Now that the pandemic is beginning to get under control in the U.S., Americans can get back to one of their favorite obsessions: throwing people, mostly of color, in prison, largely for trivial offens
Our society tortures people all the time. They are the millions thrown behind bars and forgotten about. As we know, prisons are hot beds of COVID. Prisoners in Richmond started asking questions. So wh
This story isn’t something to celebrate. It’s a crime that led to a man’s life effectively being taken away from him. Robert DuBoise, 55, has spent two-thirds of his life behind bars
Among the many cascading effects of coronavirus is going to be in the criminal injustice system: As the number of people diagnosed with the coronavirus starts to creep up in states around the country,
Ha ha ha, of course not. Those workers could strike and stuff. Nope, prison labor is way better! Now, look, I know that the prison system is terrible for prisoners around the world. Some of these bran
We’ve known for a long time how hopeless corrupt and awful the prison system is. Now that prisons can make money on American ethnic cleansing, well, you know where this is going: A regional jail
When I wrote my New York Times op-ed in August about the prison strike, I was mildly surprised it was accepted so easily because I figured that someone who was actually an expert in prison labor would