by Juliette LaMarr

Washington state has moved to restore voting rights to people with felonies upon their release from prison, according to an April 7, 2021 article in The Seattle Times. With votes being largely along party lines in the Democrat-controlled legislature, House Bill 1078 was swiftly sent to ...

by Juliette LaMarr

Mariame Kaba has released a book in response to the rise in abolitionist thinking in the last year, per a February 23, 2021 article for NBC News. Last summer, as thousands gathered in the streets to demand racial justice, many turned to Kaba and other abolitionist ...

by Juliette LaMarr

Washington Governor Jay Inslee in April 2021 signed House Bill 1090, which bans private, for-profit detention facilities in the state. According to the text of the bill, this includes “any facility in which persons are incarcerated or otherwise involuntarily confined for purposes including prior to trial or ...

by Juliette LaMarr

Kristen Clarke is President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice (DOJ). As evidenced by her April 14, 2021 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, many Republicans do not intend to make her confirmation easy.

On credentials and experience alone, ...

by Juliette LaMarr

Mumia Abu-Jamal has contracted COVID-19 but is recovering, according to a March 8, 2021 story in The Philadelphia Tribune. A political prisoner and journalist — as well as a columnist for Prison Legal News — Abu-Jamal received his diagnosis in early March, after about a week ...