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The Work and Us is an inside/outside participatory research project, that supports imprisoned people in conducting social movement research. Visit us as theworkandus.com

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Truthout @truthout.org · 29/09/2026
For the past two months, hundreds of Haitians in Springfield have been targeted by immigration authorities and forced to wear ankle monitors, as the Trump administration metes out collective punishment to appeal to its far right base.
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ICE Is Still Targeting the Haitian Community in Springfield
Hundreds of Haitians in Springfield are being forced to wear ankle monitors while they await immigration hearings.
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The last (but not least!) of five fellows that we’re introducing from The Work and Us is: Daniel Perkins! Check out his bio here or at theworkandus.com/fellowship To support the work of Daniel and the other The Work and Us incarcerated fellows this year, go to: theworkandus.com/donate
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The fourth fellow of five that we’re introducing from The Work and Us is: Kamdyn Alexis Love! Check out her bio here or at theworkandus.com/fellowship To support the work of Kamdyn and the other The Work and Us incarcerated fellows this year, go to: theworkandus.com/donate
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The third fellow of five that we’re introducing from The Work and Us is: Michael Ray! Check out his bio here or at www.theworkandus.com/fellowship To support the work of Michael and the other The Work and Us incarcerated fellows this year, go to: www.theworkandus.com/donate
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The second fellow of five that we’re introducing from The Work and Us is: Edward Fletcher! Check out his bio here or at www.theworkandus.com/fellowship To support the work of Edward and the other The Work and Us incarcerated fellows this year, go to: www.theworkandus.com/donate
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The first fellow of five that we’re introducing from The Work and Us is: Kwaneta Harris! Check out her bio here or at www.theworkandus.com/fellowship To support the work of Kwaneta and the other The Work and Us incarcerated fellows this year, go to: www.theworkandus.com/donate
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
We're so excited to announce The Work and Us 2026 Incarcerated Research Fellows! These incredible organizers will be spending the next year honing their skills and developing movement research. The Work and Us is so honored to be in the struggle alongside them. Stay tuned!
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Rest in Power, Johanna! We commit to carrying on your struggle. Excerpts from our founder @alwaysstevie.bsky.social from his moving tribute in @blackagendareport.bsky.social
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This Black August, fight censorship of imprisoned people and support inside/outside research, advocacy and organizing!
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Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app · 21/07/2026
I’m not generally a quote dunker so I’ll just say I regret to inform you that safety net removal for those who are deemed “undeserving” and family separation are and have always been a bipartisan project
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 21/07/2026
So much of scarcity's apparent credibility depends on decades-long efforts by elites to naturalize their rules about money: • Who gets to create + lend it • Who gets to borrow it • What rules govern public funds Ending scarcity entails understanding monetary design as a site of political struggle.
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
My essay on three things for abolitionists to consider about crime data is included in the new book EVERYDAY SH!T: NOTES ON ABOLITION AND RECONSTRUCTION, edited by the Abolition Journal Working Group. www.commonnotions.org/buy/everyday...
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Everyday Sh!t: Notes on Abolition and Reconstruction — Common Notions Press
The inaugural issue of the movement-focused and future-forward Abolition Journal quarterly after it was relaunched by the Philadelphia-based Abolition School.
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Juneteenth teaches us that everything is won through struggle. Today and every day, we commit to the Black struggle. Onward ‘til total freedom.
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Kae Lund @kaelund.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
"The movement we need would reject the right of anyone to profit from illness, debt, borders, disaster, surveillance, or war... The task is mass reclamation and transformation: taking back what has been stolen and making it impossible for so few to steal so much again." Please read and share.
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 31/05/2026
Prisons across the U.S. are stripping away physical mail in what they claim to be an effort to combat drug smuggling. Here's the truth: Mail scanning does not stop drug use behind bars — but it does hurt incarcerated people & their loved ones.
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Mail scanning isn't the solution to drug use in prisons -- here's why
We explain how to push back on harmful and ineffective mail scanning practices in U.S. prisons.
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
We are launching a kickoff fundraiser in support of our year-long Incarcerated Research Fellowship. We are raising $90k to provide monthly stipends to our fellows, and we need your support!
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
"The report found that free communications saved incarcerated people and their loved ones $622.5 million. Savings ranged from $172 to $1,801 per incarcerated person per year." truthout.org/articles/fre...
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Free Phone Calls Saved Incarcerated People and Their Loved Ones $622.5 Million
Six prison systems have implemented free phone calls. A new report examines the impact of free communications.
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"I need you to really understand what it means to be a survivor of sexual violence in a facility where the only accessible media is built by and for the people who most benefit from your silence." @truthout.org @kwanetaharris.bsky.social prismreports.org/2026/04/30/t...
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The controlled information ecosystem of American incarceration
In Texas state prisons, survivors are force-fed a steady diet of Fox News and content from white Christian nationalist organizations, shaping how they understand power and the violence they have exper...
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Happy May Day! www.youtube.com/watch?v=0c2w...
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America is built on prison labor. When will the labor movement defend prisoners?
YouTube video by The Real News Network
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
@inthesetimes.com "We organize with people pushed to the margins of the labor market by the carceral system, denied stability, protection, and too often even recognition that they are workers at all." inthesetimes.com/article/may-...
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Mayday, Mayday, May Day
Friday's emergency signal from the working class
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
"Campaigns that use language like housing not handcuffs or care not cages should be cautious. It’s important to be able to separate demands for something not to exist from demands for what we actually want to build." inquest.org/building-res... @inquest.bsky.social
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Building Resistance - Mon M. interviewed by Joanie Steffen - Inquest
A key author of the Community Justice Exchange toolkit for organizing against carceral infrastructure discusses the need, now more than ever, to center abolitionist goals.
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
In recognition of #EarthDay, we wanted to lift up pieces by incarcerated people on how the carceral system fuels environmental degradation that impacts people on both sides of the wall.
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
"if you take a more functional, materialist perspective on what role these institutions play in any unequal society, they’re all essentially doing the same thing. So, I think it’s a mistake to talk about ICE as if it’s separate from all of these other institutions of repression."
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Prison Policy Initiative @prisonpolicy.org · 01/04/2026
🚨NEW DATA: As the number of people in ICE custody has grown, deaths have followed. But ICE facilities are black boxes, and they don't want you to know what's happening inside. The UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project has stepped in to fill the gap 👇 uclaprisondata.org/ice-deaths-i...
U.S. map showing total deaths in ICE custody from Oct 2003-present
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
James Baldwin said it best.
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Our cofounder @alwaysstevie.bsky.social laid the ideological framework for this project years ago. We are grateful he is home with us to help it grow. www.aaihs.org/the-makings-...
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
We are accepting applications for our Incarcerated Research Fellowship. We'll train currently incarcerated people on participatory research methods and build their capacity to analyze the problems that impact them most. Learn more 👇 www.theworkandus.com/fellowship
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Jonathan Stegall @jonathanstegall.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
"And if the crises of our present are inseparable from those of our past, then the efforts to resist ICE’s abuses must be part of a larger political project—one that requires us to move toward abolition, not reform."
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Despite being closest to the problem, imprisoned people are not seen as experts on what happens inside prisons. The Work and Us seeks to change that. Learn more about our work.
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Check out this new video by one of our co-founders and organizers breaking down our incarcerated research fellowship! www.instagram.com/p/DV9QKrQjvY3/ Follow us, check us out! theworkandus.squarespace.com/support-our-... DM us to send an application to someone or go to: tinyurl.com/twusfellowship
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The Work And Us on Instagram: "One of our co-founders and organizers, Stevie Wilson, breaks down the incarcerated research fellowship and why imprisoned and formerly imprisoned people must be leaders ...
1 likes, 0 comments - thework_and_us on March 16, 2026: "One of our co-founders and organizers, Stevie Wilson, breaks down the incarcerated research fellowship and why imprisoned and formerly imprison...
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
We are honoring our movement elders for Women's History Month, starting with incredible organizers, researchers, and mentors we have lost.
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Victoria Law @victorialaw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
My latest for @theappeal.org Women imprisoned in AZ went on hunger strike for more than 2 weeks, issuing 21 polite requests: theappeal.org/arizona-perr...
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Incarcerated Women in Arizona Go on Hunger Strike for Better Conditions
After a correctional officer allegedly assaulted a 20-year-old woman, as many as 200 of her fellow prisoners went on hunger strike for nearly three weeks.
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Stevie Wilson @alwaysstevie.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
So excited to launch this veery important project. Please share and follow @the-work-and-us.bsky.social
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We're excited to launch our incarcerated research fellowship! 🎉

 To learn more and to download the application, visit tinyurl.com/twusfellowship.

 If you know someone incarcerated who might be interested in applying, DM us with their mailing address and we'll send them the application!
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We're excited to launch our incarcerated research fellowship! 🎉

 To learn more and to download the application, visit tinyurl.com/twusfellowship.

 If you know someone incarcerated who might be interested in applying, DM us with their mailing address and we'll send them the application!
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
We are so excited to launch our incarcerated research fellowship! 🎉

 This is a stipend opportunity open to anyone currently incarcerated. To learn more and download the application: tinyurl.com/twusfellowship DM us if we can help mail an application to anybody you know who might be interested!
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Kruttika Susarla @kruttika.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Story 2: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...
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BDNH Storytelling Project: When Healing Becomes Resistance: Interrupting HIV Criminalization — Interrupting Criminalization
In this zine and audio story, an advocate and an attorney share an intimate story about the power of community and policy, and the role of health care providers in the movement to end HIV criminalizat...
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Prism @prismreports.org · 21/12/2025
Xinachtli’s treatment highlights the core of prisons’ treatment of political activists, organizers said: Ensure the cause they fought for dies with them. prismreports.org/2025/12/18/xinacht…
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Protest calls for better treatment of Chicano political prisoner Xinachtli
Xinachtli, an activist imprisoned for over two decades, did not receive proper health care after a bad fall in the shower, activists say
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Stevie Wilson @alwaysstevie.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
If you want to support our project or learn more about our work, please email us at theworkandus@gmail.com or DM us @the-work-and-us.bsky.social
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Stevie Wilson @alwaysstevie.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
You can check out a piece we released in @inquest.bsky.social to get a sense of our methodology. We use participatory research as an entry point to bring incarcerated people into the abolitionist movement and engage in political education. inquest.org/why-incarcer...
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Why Incarcerated People Work - Inquest
A new research project seeks to understand present prison labor conditions—and build a path toward lasting freedom.
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Stevie Wilson @alwaysstevie.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I helped found @the-work-and-us.bsky.social in 2021. After a little hiatus, we are officially relaunching the project and are expanding our work to include an Incarcerated Research Fellowship. Because we believe that people inside are experts of their own experiences.
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the-work-and-us.bsky.social @the-work-and-us.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The Work and Us was started in 2021 by Stevie Wilson and 3 outside researchers and organizers who were interested in exploring incarcerated people’s perspectives on prison labor.
Orange background, with a white logo at the top right corner that says “The Work and Us” with a circle inside the logo and another circle outside the logo. Text in black and white reads: We are an inside-outside research and organizing collective that centers the diverse experiences of incarcerated people and challenges prevailing state and advocate-driven perspectives on prison reform. We do so by developing the capacity of imprisoned people to engage in data collection and analysis around issues of importance to them.
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