Beyond Prisons is a podcast on prison abolition that elevates the voices of people directly impacted by the system.
Mimi Kim and Rachel Herzing join Beyond Prisons to tell us about the Creative Interventions Toolkit and the model it provides for community-based interventions in interpersonal violence.
This panel discussion explores the importance of physical mail in prison and how the prison industrial complex works to undermine imprisoned people's ability to meaningfully communicate with their loved ones.
This panel discussion explores the importance of physical mail in prison and how the prison industrial complex works to undermine imprisoned people's ability to meaningfully communicate with their loved ones.
Kim is joined by Monica Cosby to discuss the importance of physical mail and Delaware’s move to eliminate it in state prisons.
Chris Rogers & YahNé Ndgo join to discuss the book “How We Stay Free: Notes On A Black Uprising,” which brings together essays, poetry, photography, and more to reflect on the George Floyd Uprisings of 2020 in Philadelphia.
A conversation between Kim Wilson and Geo Maher diving deep into Chapter 5 of his book, A World Without Police.
Geo Maher joins Beyond Prisons to talk about his new book, A World Without Police, which explores how strong communities make policing obsolete.
Adrienne maree brown joins Beyond Prisons to talk about her new book “Holding Change” on facilitation and mediation, Black feminist wisdom, and a lot more.
Rory Elliott and Woods Ervin from Critical Resistance’s newspaper, The Abolitionist, join the Beyond Prisons podcast for a wide-ranging conversation on abolitionist media.
In the second episode of our series, Beyond Solitary, political prisoner Kwame Shakur discusses the distinction between revolution and reactionary reformism, and the need to develop inside-out revolutionary strategy.
Introducing a new series, "Beyond Solitary," exploring solitary confinement as a site of struggle and featuring interviews with currently and formerly incarcerated people and their loved ones.
Andrea Ritchie joins the show to talk about her research and work with the group Interrupting Criminalization and the recent report reflecting on the “Defund the Police” demand in 2020.
Four women with loved ones incarcerated at the CA state prison in Soledad explain the many ways CDCR is failing to respond to the pandemic.
Alice returns to Beyond Prisons to provide an update on the situation facing people enduring the pandemic from within the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad, CA.
Garrett Felber joins Beyond Prisons to discuss Study and Struggle, a political education project which supports and collaborates with MS grassroots organizations.
Vicky Osterweil joins the Beyond Prisons podcast to discuss her book, “In Defense Of Looting,” and the history of rioting and looting as direct action.
Our conversation addresses a number of issues relating to e-carceration including how it deprives people of their liberty, why electronic monitoring is not better than prison, and the use of surveillance technology in the time of COVID-19.
We discuss the fundamental issues with reform & the co-optation of abolitionist demands, how electronic monitoring denies people’s basic needs while shifting the costs of incarceration from the government onto the individual, why community policing is anti-community, and more.
Dr. Venezia Michalsen, an intersectional feminist criminologist, joins Kim Wilson to discuss gender and imprisonment, reentry, and the criminalization of women’s survival strategies.
