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The Deep History of Incarceration

Matthew Larsen and Mark Letteney

A lecture sketching the outlines of the prison in the ancient Mediterranean world, and how modern practices of incarceration are — and are not — unique.

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history of prisons, incarceration, prison

Past as Prologue: Storytelling about Resistance to Incarceration

Conversation featuring Kathy Boudin, Monica Cosby, Laura McTighe, and Toussaint Losier, moderated by Mariame Kaba.

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Abolition, incarceration, prison, Survived and Punished

Organizing for Freedom Across Prison Walls

Video from a Defending Survivors: Liberating Futures workshop identifying strategies to build relationships and strengthen coalitions for freedom and safety across prison walls.

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Abolition, Defending Survivors: Liberating Futures, incarceration, Survived and Punished

Bresha Meadows: Survived and Punished

Bresha Meadows is a young Black girl incarcerated for defending her life against domestic violence. She is one of tens of thousands of girls and young women locked up behind bars across the United States facing violence at the hands of the criminal punishment system. #FreeBresha, free them all!

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#FreeBresha, Bresha Meadows, criminalization, incarceration, prison abolition, Survived and Punished

Ableism is the Bane of My Motherfuckin’ Existence

Activists Patty Berne and Stacey Milbern expand on the disability justice framework and the need for a politicized understanding of ableism within a context of racism, classism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy.

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ableism, capitalism, classism, criminalization, disability, disability justice, heteropatriarchy, incarceration, institutionalization, medical industrial complex, misogyny, prison industrial complex, racism, white supremacy