Roxy Legane unpicks the racist gang-making at the heart of a recent case in Manchester and asks what an alternative approach to harm might look like
Government demands for public sector ‘neutrality’ uphold a harmful status quo. For civil servant Sophie Izon, it’s time to speak out
A humane society shouldn’t be caging up vulnerable people. Jasmine Ahmed of CAPE (Community Action on Prison Expansion) argues for radical alternatives.
It’s time to take prison abolitionism seriously, argues David Scott.
The police spend little of their time making arrests, and most crimes are not solved, writes Alex Vitale – their real purpose is social control.
Tabitha Troughton reports from the December 9 fees demonstration
Shami Chakrabarti examines the implications of New Labour’s expansion of anti-terror laws, and what it means for the right to protest