No One Left Behind: Black Feminist Abolition as The Heart of Penal Abolition and Critical Criminology

In this essay, I address why we need to rethink justice through a Black feminist perspective, focusing on how the U.S. criminal justice system unfairly targets and harms Black women, femmes, and LGBTQ+ communities. Using the cases of Marissa Alexander and George Zimmerman as examples, it shows how prison reform often fails to address deeper systemic problems. Instead of breaking down harmful systems, reforms can make them stronger. Drawing from the works of Angela Davis, Mariame Kaba, and Beth Richie, the essay highlights how Black feminist abolition addresses these issues by focusing on how race, gender, and class intersect within the prison system. This essay explores transformative justice, mutual aid, and community-based ways to address harm without relying on police or prisons. It argues that dismantling punishment systems and promoting care, healing, and accountability can lead to real safety and justice. By connecting critical criminology and penal abolition, the essay calls for bold changes in how we approach justice, urging us to move beyond punishment and build community-driven solutions that lead to liberation for all

Jailed! : Observations of the Societal Structure of a Jail Housing Unit

This article is an autobiographical account of the thirty days that I spent as a detainee at the Manhattan Detention Center (MDC). Given little to no information about the circumstances that warranted my arrest and detention, I began my own investigation into how the criminal justice system differs from its representations to the public and how it systemically fails certain communities. I observed that the environment in incarceration fosters the creation of a unique society. Using conversations with fellow detainees on their past and present confinement, I studied the makeshift societal structure within MDC. Focusing primarily on the housing unit, which was a barter system trade community, I was able to introduce minute system changes and observe their overall effect. The end result was a stronger interconnected community based on mutual respect and the elimination of marginalized status. Further study on the communities that arise in various incarceration environments could lead to better jail and prison conditions, more positive outcomes for detainees upon release, and a potentially a decrease in recidivism rates

The History of Bullets Against Children

Hundreds of school shooting massacres are the average yearly in the United States. That means hundreds of students, teachers, staff, parents, and whole communities  that are physically and mentally harmed yearly. Yet, little to no legislation is made to protect these innocent lives from the firearms that aim at them. All because of our 2nd amendment. In this essay, we will first study the history of the 2nd amendment, we  then will study different mass school shooting cases and how they present issues in the current laws. Afterwards we will look at the effects that mass school shootings cause. And lastly we will conclude with reviewing what we can do to cause change, not erase our 2nd amendment right, but how we can protect these children’s rights to life,liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Changes in gun laws are necessary for the safety of the future generations of the United States

The Law as a Broken Clock

Time moves slowly, endlessly, a broken loop— Tick-tock, they say justice for all, But for who? And at what cost

Some Equations Concerning the Sum of Divisors Function

In this article, I wiil consider four equations involving the sum of divisors function, σ, and I will prove that for the first two there are infinitely many solutions, while for the other two I will provide some particular solutions. I will also study some properties regarding two sequences of numbers