WORT 89.9FM Madison · The Idea Of Prison Abolition According to the World Prison Brief, the United States has over two million people in jail or in prison. By either […]
Ruth Wilson Gilmore on Abolition Geography
For today’s special pledge drive show, Thursday host Allen Ruff has a wide-ranging conversation with iconic prison abolitionist Ruth Wilson Gilmore about the meaning of geography, why abolition, the “changing […]
E-Carceration, A New Form of Imprisonment
“That’s what prison is about—it’s about tapping into the meager resources of the poorest and most oppressed sector of the population and making them pay to incarcerate themselves.” Today on […]
Let Prisoners Vote
In the United States, home of over 20 percent of the world’s prison population, the vast majority of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people are denied the right to vote. What’s […]
Prison Abolition and the Free the 350 Bail Fund
The Madison organization Free the 350 Bail Fund works to bail out Black people incarcerated in the Dane County jail system. They argue that incarceration is the modern-day slavery and […]
Bail and the bigger picture in Dane County
The fight against mass incarceration is a fight to fundamentally challenge the assumptions that drive our systems of policing, jails, and prisons in America. It’s also a fight against the […]