Dan Berger on the critical, overlooked history of WA’s prison abolition movement
In Crosscut, IAS faculty member Dan Berger published an in Washington state. Berger highlighted the state's role as a national leader in thinking about prison policy, prison reform, and alternatives to prison. The article focuses on efforts by incarcerated people, including the prisoner newspapers archived in the , as well as protests and legislative appeals. He also discussed several current events, including the effort to close the NW Detention Center in Tacoma and stop construction of a new youth jail in Seattle.