Feature: Italy’s ‘Fascist’ Government Is Imprisoning Anarchists Using Anti-Mafia Laws
Jack Harmsworth
Alfredo Cospito is imprisoned under '41-bis', a system so brutal even an American court compared it to 'torture'. Jack Harmsworth reports.
Tag: abolition
Analysis: The Police Are Psychics Now, Apparently
Rivkah Brown
Rivkah Brown explains the latest amendments to the public order bill.
Analysis: The UK Has Its Own Mass Incarceration Crisis
Ell Folan
The UK now spends £5bn a year on prisons, more than any other European country besides Russia, writes Ell Folan.
Opinion: Why Should Chris Kaba’s Death Matter Less Than the Queen’s?
Kehinde Andrews
Three days before Elizabeth Windsor died, Chris Kaba did. The establishment’s apathy is testament to the very racism the monarch embodies, writes Kehinde Andrews.
Opinion: A Cash Injection Won’t Fix Our Broken Legal System
Michael Etienne
Criminal barristers deserve better pay, writes Michael Etienne. But paying barristers better won't deliver a justice system that’s actually just.
Novara FM: Abolishing Prisons Is Only the Start
How can we build a world that has no need of policing? Rivkah Brown finds out with scholar-activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
Feature: Couriers Stunt Dalston’s Gentrification. The Police and Council Want Them Gone
Rivkah Brown
Saturday night’s immigration raid in Dalston, north London is part of a years-long effort to cleanse the area of its brown and Black couriers. Rivkah Brown reports.
Feature: How to Intervene in a Police Stop
UK Cop Watch
The crisis of faith in policing has made many people want to take matters into their own hands. UK Cop Watch advises how.
Opinion: You Can Have Schooling or You Can Have Policing. You Can’t Have Both
Khadijah Anabah
The case of Child Q proves that education is incompatible with the carceral state, argues Khadijah Anabah.
Opinion: A Kill the Bill Protester’s Court Case Is All the Evidence You Need for Police Abolition
Vala Z Francis
A Bristol woman battered by police won a partial victory last week, but could still get prison time. Her case highlights the untenability of our police state.
Opinion: The Met Just Apologised After Strip-Searching Me. I Don’t Believe a Word of It
Koshka Duff
For eight years before their recent U-turn, the officers who assaulted Koshka Duff claimed they were just doing their jobs. They were right, she says: sexual violence is policing’s bread and butter.
Opinion: We Must Stop Comparing Sabina Nessa’s Murder With Sarah Everard’s
Aviah Day
'Why no protests for Sabina?' many have asked in the wake of her killing. The answer is more complex than white privilege, writes Aviah Day.
Opinion: We Shouldn’t Ban Police From Pride. We Should Abolish Them Altogether
Shanice McBean
This year’s NYC Pride will be the first in years without a police presence. Pride in London’s refusal to follow suit has made the event look increasingly out of touch with a renewed abolitionist movement - one that demands safety from police everywhere, not just at Pride.
Opinion: Derek Chauvin’s Conviction Won’t Make Black Lives Matter
Annie Olaloku-Teriba
How comforting it would be were the problem simply police and not policing, writes race scholar Annie Olaloku-Teriba.
Report: Psychiatrists Are Covering for Cruelty in Prisons. A Group of Campaigners Wants to Stop Them
Sophie K Rosa
Since 2015, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has offered prisons with extreme isolation units "Enabling Environment" status. In an open letter to the RCP, prison campaigners say the only thing the college is enabling is abuse. Sophie Hemery reports.
The Lockdown: The Never-Ending Sentence
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann are joined by Marion, a campaigner from Smash IPP. The group campaigns to free prisoners still serving the indeterminate sentence of Imprisonment for Public Protection.
The Lockdown: Deaths in State Custody 2: INQUEST
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Deborah Coles, Director of the charity INQUEST.
Report From Abolitionist Futures 2018
On June 15th – 18th 2018, activists from around the world gathered in London for Abolitionist Futures: this year’s International Conference on Penal Abolition. Over the weekend, there were over 100 presentations and workshops with contributions from 18 countries, bringing activists and community organisers together to plan for a future where prisons, policing and punishment […]