Sex Trafficking Prosecutions Won’t Stop the Next Epstein. Here’s What Will.

What can be done to stop another Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and their network of people who participated in the abuse of more than 1,000 girls and young women? Right now, the U.S. right and carceral liberal forces (including many Democrats) are focused heavily on demanding that the Department of Justice release the grand jury files related to the Epstein case — as though this “smoking gun”…
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When Everything Is Criminalized, We Must Unlearn the Language of “Innocence”

I ’ve been an organizer for half of my life now. What a strange thing to write. I’ve been involved with struggles to abolish the death penalty, worked to kick racists and war criminals off campuses, to fund and expand abortion access, to form unions and strike committees; I’ve slept on concrete during youth rebellions, navigated supporting criminalized survivors of gender based violence…
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