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ALC Protests Coal Ash Pollution at SCI Fayette

ALC Protests Coal Ash Pollution at SCI Fayette

July 12, 2023

Making Noise & Making News: June 2023

June 13, 2023

These Women Face Death by Incarceration, But They’re Organizing for Their Lives

These Women Face Death by Incarceration, But They’re Organizing for Their Lives

April 21, 2023

Prison abolition is environmental justice

Prison abolition is environmental justice

March 23, 2023

Criminal justice advocates call for end to life without parole sentencing

Criminal justice advocates call for end to life without parole sentencing

September 09, 2022

I spent 14 years in solitary confinement. Here’s why we should end the practice.

I spent 14 years in solitary confinement. Here’s why we should end the practice.

August 08, 2022

Friends and family of ALC client John

Friends and family of ALC client John "Yahya" Moore launch official supporter campaign

July 29, 2022

Inventing Solitary: In 1790, Philadelphia opened the first American penitentiary, with the nation’s first solitary cells. Black people were disproportionately punished from the start.

Inventing Solitary: In 1790, Philadelphia opened the first American penitentiary, with the nation’s first solitary cells. Black people were disproportionately punished from the start.

June 08, 2022

Welcome Home Shakaboona!

May 12, 2022

To successfully use Pennsylvania’s ‘compassionate release’ law, he had to choose to die

To successfully use Pennsylvania’s ‘compassionate release’ law, he had to choose to die

April 21, 2022

“I’ve been following the work of the Abolitionist Law Center for quite a long time. If we’re going to begin the process of eliminating structural racism, we certainly have to start with prisons.”

Angela Y. Davis

Abolitionist Law Center
P.O. Box 23032
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
info@alcenter.org