An accessible guide for activists, educators, and all who are interested in understanding how the prison system oppresses communities and harms individuals. The

The number of people incarcerated in U.S. prisons and jails more than quadrupled between 1975 and 2005, reaching the unprecedented level of over two million inm

In 1974, women imprisoned at New York’s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating o

Children of the Prison Boom describes the devastating effects of America's experiment in mass incarceration for a generation of vulnerable children. Wakefield a

Over the last thirty years, the prison population in the United States has increased more than seven-fold to over two million people, including vastly dispropor