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"In the Gordon County Jail in Georgia . . . people were eating toothpaste, toilet paper, and syrup packets out of hunger. Human rights violations like these . . . are endless." Bianca & Worth Rises inquest.org/not-fit-for-hu…

Journalist Meera Navlakha on the organizing work of Release Aging People in Prison Campaign to create paths to release for older incarcerated NYers. Learn about the inspiring life journey of formerly incarcerated activist and RAPP organizer Stanley Jamel Bellamy: inquest.org/never-too-old-…

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“If they don’t get clemency, if the Elder Bill don’t pass, they going to die in prison. And we know that. That’s why we come out here.” –Jamal Bellamy Release Aging People in Prison Campaign on fighting for elderly incarcerated people to come home. inquest.org/never-too-old-…

This week, Inquest covered the appalling state of prison food—and the insane profits that private companies derive from it—and efforts by organizers in New York State to release more elderly incarcerated folks. Read the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.org/no…

"All these white people did not know each other personally, but they all knew what team they were on, and they all knew they were white, together, and that we were not." Dr. Brittany Friedman 🌹 on how racist solidarity works as a form of policing. inquest.org/united-in-hate/

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"We continually witness the power of white solidarity across class, law enforcement, and personal boundaries—even if the actors are complete strangers—in support of the collective decimation of Black people." Dr. Brittany Friedman 🌹 w/ UNC Press inquest.org/united-in-hate/

"Prison is not a place that solves violence. Prison is a place that replicates that violence and extends it out." —Gina Dent ('Abolition. Feminism. Now.') helps us imagine an abolitionist future. A collab with Sonali Kolhatkar Rising Up With Sonali Seven Stories Press inquest.org/building-towar…

"What does it mean to infuse all of our organizations, workspaces, play spaces, and educational spaces with abolitionist principles?” Gina Dent ('Abolition. Feminism. Now.') imagining a better future, w/ Sonali Kolhatkar Rising Up With Sonali Seven Stories Press inquest.org/building-towar…

This week Inquest interviewed Gina Dent, one of the leading theorists of abolition feminism, and explored how white supremacy enforces racist public order. Get the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.org/a-…

Introducing a new 6-part series revisiting the landmark insights of Ruth Wilson Gilmore's 'Golden Gulag', exploring what prison abolitionists can learn from the history of carceral expansion. With RWG, Craig Gilmore Lydia Pelot-Hobbs & Judah Schept inquest.org/abolitionist-l…

"How do different political blocs emerge in different places to influence carceral developments?" Lydia Pelot-Hobbs with Ruth WIlson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore & Judah Schept in Part 1 of their new carceral geography series. inquest.org/uneven-expansi…

"The prison fight should rightly be understood as a fight against environmental injustice." —Ruth Wilson Gilmore inquest.org/abolition-and-…

This week Inquest launched a new series on abolitionist organizing and carceral geography from Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Craig Gilmore Lydia Pelot-Hobbs & Judah Schept — get the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.org/go…

"Rather than take for granted that counties can build jails and hold people in them, we should ask HOW: What are the vulnerabilities? What can we do about them?" —Ruth Wilson Gilmore Craig Gilmore Lydia Pelot-Hobbs Judah Schept on undoing the power to jail inquest.org/custody-and-po…

"Who has the capacity . . . to organize the political economic geography of unfreedom?" —Ruth Wilson Gilmore on the abolitionist potential of knowing the minutiae of how state power constitutes itself—and can be subverted inquest.org/custody-and-po…

"When we’re locked down for institutional count, we’re in an oven. It’s too hot. And there’s no relief." Incarcerated author Tutankhamon Waterman on extreme, dangerous heat in Virginia's prisons. A copub with Truthout inquest.org/108-degrees/