More Than A Magazine, A Movement
Deanna Van Buren is co-founder, executive director and design director of Designing Justice + Designing Spaces, an Oakland-based architecture and real estate development nonprofit working to end mass incarceration by building infrastructure that redefines the entire criminal justice pipeline.
“There’s an entire infrastructure for criminal justice; we could create an entire infrastructure for restorative justice.”
The lack of needed legislation to protect prisoners is acting as the judge, jury and executioner. Having a proper and humane plan during crises means the difference between life and death.
The #JustUs campaign urges each state to adopt and institute an emergency management plan to protect incarcerated populations.
Women are the fastest growing segment of the incarcerated population. How do they fit into the criminal justice movement? And how dire is COVID-19?
Youth lockups are supposed to rehabilitate kids, not punish them. The pandemic is making that harder than ever.
“Does anyone believe that rehabilitation can occur in a locked facility during a pandemic? What are we actually doing still holding children in facilities?”
Introducing “Tutwiler,” a new Marshall Project/Frontline documentary about women in an Alabama prison who support each other through pregnancy, labor and saying goodbye to their newborns.
When poor women—legally innocent women—can’t pay their bail to get out of jail, whole communities suffer. Here’s what women activists are doing to fix this.
COVID-19 is showing us what ending mass incarceration could look like by releasing inmates. Some judges and prosecutors like what they see.
Every pregnant woman deserves compassionate care, and stories like the woman being forced to give birth in her pants make clear that immigration officials are not providing it.
Incarcerated women are 30 times more likely to be raped than free women. Even though women account for less than 10% of inmates, their reports account for three quarters of assaults, and almost three-quarters of staff are men.
Over 61 percent of federally incarcerated women were charged with nonviolent drug offenses—and black women, Native American women and Latinas more likely to serve time than their white counterparts.
