Kelly Hayes and Maya Schenwar respond to Lisa L. Miller’s “The Dead End of Checks and Balances.”

That's why I hate New Year's. I want every morning to be a new year's for me. Every day I want to reckon with myself, and every day I want to renew myself. No day set aside for rest. I choose my pause...

The authors of a new book on solitary answer your questions about their experiences with isolation and the movement to end the torturous practice.

Prison writers from across the U.S. describe how cold their prisons get in the winter — and what small dignities could make it more bearable.

Banned Books Week—October 5th to 11th—is an annual celebration of the freedom to read, and the aspiration that books should be accessible to all. In recognition of Banned Books Week 2025, Haymarket is...

In prison, Stevie Wilson leads talks with inmates on why they carry guns — and how to find real solutions to Philadelphia’s gun violence.

People involved with labor justice, grassroots community-building, and independent watchdogs make obvious allies for abolitionists—but how do we win them to our cause?

Letters to Activists in Crisis

These “know your rights” videos have crucial, easy-to-understand information.

YouTube video by Haymarket Books

Prison transfers are routinely used to punish, disorient, and isolate incarcerated people, disconnecting them from family, friends, community, and all sense of place.

Orisanmi Burton’s Tip of the Spear uncovers the obscured and radical demands of the inmates who staged the 1971 prison uprising—a world without prisons.

9971 engages imprisoned people through study and discussion. We provide mutua… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support 9971's Work Behind the Walls

If They Build It: Organizing Lessons & Strategies Against Carceral Infrastructure is a resource from Community Justice Exchange for generating abolitionist struggles against the construction and ...

Prison transfers are routinely used to punish, disorient, and isolate incarcerated people, disconnecting them from family, friends, community, and all sense of place.

9971 engages imprisoned people through study and discussion. We provide mutua… Danielle Squillante needs your support for Support 9971's Work Behind the Walls