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Fixing Philly Prisons Will Be Hard, But Here’s A Plan For How To Do It

Fixing Philly Prisons Will Be Hard, But Here’s A Plan For How To Do It

January 08, 2024

MEDIA ADVISORY | Probation: A Driving Force of Mass Incarceration

September 12, 2023

Horton v. Rangos

Horton v. Rangos

July 26, 2023

Death-Making Institutions: How Police, Probation, and the Judiciary Caused Gerald Thomas to Die in Jail

Death-Making Institutions: How Police, Probation, and the Judiciary Caused Gerald Thomas to Die in Jail

July 05, 2022

Maintaining Apartheid: Arrest and Cash Bail in Allegheny County (Court Watch Docket Report #2)

Maintaining Apartheid: Arrest and Cash Bail in Allegheny County (Court Watch Docket Report #2)

April 27, 2021

Advocates fight to end cash bail; highlight important role in this year's Allegheny County magistrate races

Advocates fight to end cash bail; highlight important role in this year's Allegheny County magistrate races

January 13, 2021

ALC Court Watch celebrates end of first year, releases statement on abolishing cash bail.

January 06, 2021

Report: Racial Imbalances Persist In Allegheny County Criminal Justice System

Report: Racial Imbalances Persist In Allegheny County Criminal Justice System

December 02, 2020

Cash Bail, Arbitrary Detention, and Apartheid in Allegheny County Jail

Cash Bail, Arbitrary Detention, and Apartheid in Allegheny County Jail

December 01, 2020

New report shows how disproportionately Black people in Pittsburgh are incarcerated, arrested, and confronted by police

New report shows how disproportionately Black people in Pittsburgh are incarcerated, arrested, and confronted by police

December 01, 2020

“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