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Family jail visit

These systems of carceral control, including the prison system, but also including the family policing system, otherwise known as child welfare, are grounded not in a practice of help and rehabilitation and support, but actually intended in many ways to tear parents from their children and particularly black mothers.

Maya Schenwar returns to This is Hell! Maya will be joined by the co-editor Kim Wilson who are co-editors of the new collection, We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition from Haymarket Books. Maya is editor in-chief of truthout. Kim is the cofounder, cohost, and producer of Beyond Prisons, a podcast on incarceration and prison abolition.

Rotten History from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.

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