Tag: abolition
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Nation & World
Can prisons be abolished? Look at 1973 Walpole takeover
On the 50th anniversary of the takeover, former prisoners, activists recall when inmates ran prison without incident during guard strike.
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Nation & World
Why police resist reforms to militarization
Jessica Katzenstein, an Inequality in America fellow, has been analyzing police militarization in an effort to show how and why departments are resisting changes and the ways this resistance is not as straightforward as it’s often portrayed.
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Nation & World
This year, a single digitization focus at Houghton
For the 2020‒21 academic year, Houghton will pause all digital projects to focus solely on building a digital collection related to Black American history, building a collection called “Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom.”