Bronx residents welcome the closure of Rikers but are worried plans for new jails will compromise dreams for truly community-created spaces.Writer, artist, and NYU student Jose Díaz shares his experience of being arrested and imprisoned on a technical violation during the COVID-19 crisis. Incarcerated No New Jails NYC member Jennifer Rose, who organizes in solidarity from California, explains their opposition to the city’s $11 billion investment in detention.Incarcerated No New Jails NYC member Lee Doane, who has extensive experience with detention in New York City, explains his...…Bronx residents welcome the closure of Rikers but are worried plans for new jails will compromise dreams for truly community-created spaces.Writer, artist, and NYU student Jose Díaz shares his experience of being arrested and imprisoned on a technical violation during the COVID-19 crisis. Incarcerated No New Jails NYC member Jennifer Rose, who organizes in solidarity from California, explains their opposition to the city’s $11 billion investment in detention.Incarcerated No New Jails NYC member Lee Doane, who has extensive experience with detention in New York City, explains his...WW…

Investigations, series, special editions, and reporting by freelance journalists for ShadowproofBronx residents welcome the closure of Rikers but are worried plans for new jails will compromise dreams for truly community-created spaces.Frito-Lay workers in Kansas are striking over poor working conditions, outrageous schedules, and poor treatment.Abolitionist organizers are building global solidarity, navigating a wide range of challenges from language to selective anti-imperialism.As Georgia moves into the next phase of the pandemic, it is becoming clear that the state’s incarcerated...…Investigations, series, special editions, and reporting by freelance journalists for ShadowproofBronx residents welcome the closure of Rikers but are worried plans for new jails will compromise dreams for truly community-created spaces.Frito-Lay workers in Kansas are striking over poor working conditions, outrageous schedules, and poor treatment.Abolitionist organizers are building global solidarity, navigating a wide range of challenges from language to selective anti-imperialism.As Georgia moves into the next phase of the pandemic, it is becoming clear that the state’s incarcerated...WW…

Bronx residents welcome the closure of Rikers but are worried plans for new jails will compromise dreams for truly community-created spaces.Incarcerated No New Jails NYC member Jennifer Rose, who organizes in solidarity from California, explains their opposition to the city’s $11 billion investment in detention.Incarcerated No New Jails NYC member Lee Doane, who has extensive experience with detention in New York City, explains his opposition to the city’s $11 billion investment in new jails.Incarcerated No New Jails NYC member Jesus Morales, who has experience with multiple New York City...…Bronx residents welcome the closure of Rikers but are worried plans for new jails will compromise dreams for truly community-created spaces.Incarcerated No New Jails NYC member Jennifer Rose, who organizes in solidarity from California, explains their opposition to the city’s $11 billion investment in detention.Incarcerated No New Jails NYC member Lee Doane, who has extensive experience with detention in New York City, explains his opposition to the city’s $11 billion investment in new jails.Incarcerated No New Jails NYC member Jesus Morales, who has experience with multiple New York City...WW…

Bronx residents welcome the closure of Rikers but are worried plans for new jails will compromise dreams for truly community-created spaces.Shadowproof launches the Marvel Cooke Fellowship to fund reporting from writers of color on the prison abolition movement.Shadowproof is mobilizing resources and our platform to raise the abolition movement’s visibility, inviting journalists to pitch us stories on the subject.Activists behind the Certain Days calendar join the Beyond Prisons Podcast to discuss their project, which raises money for prisoners and grassroots groups.Sarah K. Tyson joins the...…Bronx residents welcome the closure of Rikers but are worried plans for new jails will compromise dreams for truly community-created spaces.Shadowproof launches the Marvel Cooke Fellowship to fund reporting from writers of color on the prison abolition movement.Shadowproof is mobilizing resources and our platform to raise the abolition movement’s visibility, inviting journalists to pitch us stories on the subject.Activists behind the Certain Days calendar join the Beyond Prisons Podcast to discuss their project, which raises money for prisoners and grassroots groups.Sarah K. Tyson joins the...WW…

This article was funded by the Marvel Cooke Fellowship. about this reporting project and to fund our fellowship budget.In 2019, New York City made the historic pledge to shutter the 89-year-old Rikers Island jail complex by 2026. In the years since, budget restrictions and the pandemic have at once pushed back the proposed timeline and heightened the urgency to address conditions on the island. Even as the timeline shifts, a highly controversial piece of the plan remains: the creation of four new borough-based jails, intended in-part to replace the city’s existing facilities in...…This article was funded by the Marvel Cooke Fellowship. about this reporting project and to fund our fellowship budget.In 2019, New York City made the historic pledge to shutter the 89-year-old Rikers Island jail complex by 2026. In the years since, budget restrictions and the pandemic have at once pushed back the proposed timeline and heightened the urgency to address conditions on the island. Even as the timeline shifts, a highly controversial piece of the plan remains: the creation of four new borough-based jails, intended in-part to replace the city’s existing facilities in...WW…