On February 27, the Department of Politics & Policy and Department of Race, Gender & Sexuality Studies hosted the 2025 Black ...

If you’ve never wondered who made the chair you’re sitting on, here’s the answer: prisoners.

The new slavery is a shameful mark on our country’s pretenses to respect for human rights and the dignity of every human ...

Tucked away five miles south of Newton, Iowa, Newton Correctional Facility holds 938 low- and medium-security inmates. The ...

By devaluing incarcerated labor, prisons devalue all labor. Prisons are fundamentally anti-labor institutions, and guards’ ...

I now advocate we move away from ‘reform’ of the problem and towards building solutions outside of it. Speaking about prison abolition to women who have been in prison requires empathy and ...

In Syria, over a thousand people have been killed, the vast majority of them civilians, in a spate of massacres largely targeting the country’s Alawite religious minority. Syria’s longtime ruling ...

When examining social problems like mass incarceration, economic inequality, and community disenfranchisement, the most ...

The Berlin Freiheitsfonds (Freedom Fund) initiative has managed to secure the release of 15 convicts incarcerated for failing ...

A historian answers Bolts readers’ questions on the deep roots of forced labor in U.S. prisons, how it operates today, and ...

Pennsylvania’s Board of Pardons on Thursday voted unanimously to grant Marie Scott, who has served 51 years behind bars for ...