Criminal justice and prisons
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How the left can support drug law reform
It’s high time for the UK left to support comprehensive drug policy reform, driven by anti-racism and class consciousness, argues Carrie Lou Hamilton
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Is rave culture political?
Despite facing state repression, rave culture continues to be a space for political expression and collective action, writes Alex Carter
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Five years of the US’s futile FOSTA-SESTA sex trafficking laws
The US law has inflicted enormous damage worldwide on sex workers, while doing nothing to fight exploitation, writes Marin Scarlett
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The Manchester Ten and the injustice of ‘conspiracy’ charges
Roxy Legane unpicks the racist gang-making at the heart of a recent case in Manchester and asks what an alternative approach to harm might look like
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Carceral realism: Is there no alternative?
Punishment and imprisonment are deeply embedded in our thinking but as Oly Durose argues, we are capable of building less violent, more nurturing solutions to society’s problems
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My father’s 13 years as a Palestinian political prisoner
Shahd Abusalama recounts her father Ismail’s experience in the Israeli prison system and calls for drastic reforms
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Prison is not the answer
A humane society shouldn’t be caging up vulnerable people. Jasmine Ahmed of CAPE (Community Action on Prison Expansion) argues for radical alternatives.
