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Prisons Must Fall — Interrupting Criminalization Prisons Must Fall is a powerful children’s book showing the harm that prisons cause and exploring abolitionist solutions, such as meeting people's basic needs, restorative justice, and community suppo...

Importantly, there are supplemental materials you can use with the book or on their own here: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

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...

Story 2: www.interruptingcriminalization.com/resources-al...

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

Xinachtli’s treatment highlights the core of prisons’ treatment of political activists, organizers said: Ensure the cause they fought for dies with them.
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/18/xinachtli-political-prisoner-protest/

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

Why Incarcerated People Work - Inquest A new research project seeks to understand present prison labor conditions—and build a path toward lasting freedom.

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...

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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Follow us on Instagram (@thework_and_us), Twitter (@TheWorkAndUs) and Bluesky, check out our website at theworkandus.com, support us, and help us get the word out!

Black background with a white and orange “Work and Us” logo. Text in white and orange reads: “Since the early stages of our project, we have prioritized a participatory methodology that engages directly with incarcerated people, not only to generate richer insights into prison conditions but also to democratize the research process. For example, we designed and launched a survey to better understand prison labor from the perspective of incarcerated people across the U.S. and received 370 responses from people inside.”

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.

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.

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.