CARE, NOT CUFFS!
In March 2026, the LA County Department of Health Services released a policy for all county public hospitals asserting the rights of detained patients & instructing hospital staff how to handle interactions with ICE. This was after months of organizing and direct action from a coalition of patients, healthcare workers, lawyers, and immigrant justice advocates.
LA County is the US’ second-largest public hospital system. This policy is a huge win for all who have been sounding the alarm on the rampant violations of patient and worker rights by ICE agents and hospital administrators since ICE’s escalated occupation of Los Angeles began in June 2025. It can also be a model for other groups fighting across the country to demand their health systems protect criminalized communities.
The People’s Care Collective, a LA health worker organizing group informed by the principles of IC’s Beyond Do No Harm network, was central to the policy’s creation. They have been doing teach-ins on the policy to county physicians, residents, and nurses about the policy’s implications for clinical practice despite LA County officials’ initial delay in sharing info to county workers and patients.
In May, the LA County Board of Supervisors approved creating the committee that will require training for public health workers on the policy. The group, composed of hospital officials, county counsel, and the Office of Immigration Affairs, will also collect feedback from staff on how to improve the policy and report that back to the board. Though there are concerns about the makeup of the committee and the limited involvement of frontline health workers and patients, this is a promising step in the right direction, and we hope that it will enable further uptake of the policy across the county and further the defense of detained patients’ rights to health, safety, and care.
Learn more about the Beyond Do No Harm Network and how you can get involved! Check out bit.ly/BDNHLaunch
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Interrupting Criminalization research aims to interrupt and end the the growing criminalization & incarceration of women and LGBTQ people of color for criminalized acts related to public order, poverty, child welfare, drug use, survival and self-defense.
05/29/2026
RESCHEDULED! Now happening June 18th!
Writers, editors, journalists, communications people and the like are all welcome to this online discussion! Click the link to register.
• What is the effect of surveillance and criminalization on our work as media makers?
• What is our responsibility as media makers to criminalized communities?
• What tools and strategies can we use to make sound decisions about safety, support, and transparency with sources and communities in a context of increasing criminalization?
• How can we make decisions collaboratively about platform, format, and risk in our work?
Resistance Lab: Making and Distributing Media Under Surveillance — Interrupting Criminalization Join IC’s Abolition Journalism Fellow Lewis Raven Wallace, digital security firm Safety Sync Group, and fellow journalists and media makers for a resistance lab! In this session, we will think through and skill-share ways of keeping our communities and sources safer when reporting in a cont
05/28/2026
Click the link to read our latest This Month In Criminalization, where you can see how to get involved with trans rights organizing, efforts to melt ICE, supporting the Spokane 3, fighting for abortion access, & more! bit.ly/IC-TMIC526
05/27/2026
Check out the second IC Canada newsletter: bit.ly/ICCanada2
➡️ While most Canadians focus on the dangers of U.S. state power, Canada is complicit in criminalization and repression in the U.S.
➡️ AI surveillance companies colluding in crackdowns on U.S. citizens and migrants are firmly embedded into Canadian institutions.
➡️ Canada is increasingly taking up pro-Israel lawfare, now through new laws against "hate crimes."
Read the newsletter for more!
05/11/2026
Writers, editors, journalists, communications people and the like are all welcome to register for this online discussion happening June 2!
• What is the effect of surveillance and criminalization on our work as media makers?
• What is our responsibility as media makers to criminalized communities?
• What tools and strategies can we use to make sound decisions about safety, support, and transparency with sources and communities in a context of increasing criminalization?
• How can we make decisions collaboratively about platform, format, and risk in our work?
Resistance Lab: Making and Distributing Media Under Surveillance — Interrupting Criminalization Join IC’s Abolition Journalism Fellow Lewis Raven Wallace, digital security firm Safety Sync Group, and fellow journalists and media makers for a resistance lab! In this session, we will think through and skill-share ways of keeping our communities and sources safer when reporting in a cont
04/30/2026
This , groups who have been organizing around policing, immigration enforcement, & abolition of ICE for many years (or even decades!) like Critical Resistance, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Detention Watch, & IC wanted to offer some clarity around what it means to demand to .
04/24/2026
Last year, IC hosted a Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism webinar w/Yo No Fui, an abolitionist & antifascist collective in Argentina. A new zine, available in English & Spanish, summarizes our conversation about transnational authoritarian collaborations & abolitionist resistance:
Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism Zine — Volume 1: Yo No Fui — Interrupting Criminalization A zine on transnational authoritarian collaborations and abolitionist resistance — available in English and Spanish. The zine summarizes a conversation with Yo No Fui, an abolitionist and antifascist collective in Argentina, that took place during Interrupting Criminalization’s Transformative Ju...
04/22/2026
Happy ! We want to quote abolitionist environmentalist & friend of IC Ruth Wilson Gilmore, & point out that in addition to being unjust & inhumane, prisons are bad for the environment!
To learn more about what you can do to fight against policing & prisons, check out our resources page: interruptingcriminalization.com/resources
04/21/2026
THIS SUNDAY IN NYC: Black Study Release Event!
In 1829, David Walker published An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, a pamphlet calling for insurrection among enslaved Black people that inspired present & future abolitionist movements. Black Study traces this history alongside archival photos of Black people reading & learning across generations.
🗓️ Sunday, April 26
📍 226 Marcus Garvey Blvd, Brooklyn
🕰️ 3-5pm
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04/20/2026
NEW YORK CITY: May 4th, join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study & strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses. Featuring our own Mariame Kaba. Register here ⬇️
We Know It Well: Red Scare at CUNY and the Archival Politics of Dissent Join archivists, activists, and scholars for an evening of study and strategizing for resisting the new McCarthyism on college campuses.
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