Explicit 
This week we speak with author and activist, Vikki Law about the book Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms, just out from The New Press and co-authored by Maya Schenwar.
We speak about how reform and so-called 'more humane' 'alternatives' to incarceration such as electronic monitoring, drug courts and probation in fact extend the carceral net. We also talk about alternatives to the 'Punishment Paradigm' in responding to harm, police and prison abolitionism and resisting recuperation in our struggles to imagine and birth a new world.
More of Vikki's writings can be found at https://victorialaw.net
You can find all of our interviews with Vikki at our website.
We got word that Sean Swain has had his email, phone and mail blocked, likely in response to his "An Open Letter to Annette Chambers-Smith," available via DetroitABC, as well as his soon-to-be-published book, "Ohio" (parts 1-3 of the first half available here in zine form, soon via LBC). Pass it on...