Prison by Any Other Name by Maya Schenwar

Victoria Law as a teenager was arrested for armed robbery and given probation. Schenwar has spoken openly about her sister’s multiple experiences of incarceration, including while pregnant, in state prison. Prison By Any Other Name’s authors, Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law, are progressive journalists, prison abolitionists, and people directly impacted by the criminal justice system. Publisher: New York: The New Press, 2020. She’s a cofounder of the Chicago Community Bond Fund and organizes with the Love & Protect collective in Chicago.Prison By Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences Of Popular Reforms

She has appeared on Democracy Now, MSNBC, C-SPAN, NPR, and many other television and radio programs. She gave a Tedx talk on prison abolition, and has been a keynote speaker in a wide range of settings. Maya has written op-eds and news articles for Truthout, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, The New Jersey Star-Ledger, and numerous other publications. Maya is also the co-editor (with Joe Macaré and Alana Yu-Lan Price) of Who Do You Serve, Who Do You Protect? Police Violence and Resistance in the United States. She is the co-author (with Victoria Law) of Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms, and the author of Locked Down, Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn’t Work and How We Can Do Better. She is Editor-in-Chief of Truthout, an independent social justice news website.

Maya Schenwar is a writer, editor, journalist and organizer working to sculpt new ways for journalism to serve the public good and fuel social transformation.

Prison by Any Other Name by Maya Schenwar