Policing Health
The surprising link between Medicaid expansion and arrests levels suggests that keeping people healthy also keeps them from the reach of the criminal legal system.
The surprising link between Medicaid expansion and arrests levels suggests that keeping people healthy also keeps them from the reach of the criminal legal system.
For incarcerated fathers, child-support and related debt create their own feedback loops of disadvantage and punishment.
To stay true to their professed values, social workers must wholly disavow and remove themselves from systems of harm.
Carceral feminists clamored for the Violence Against Women Act. What they got in return was criminalization, incarceration, and more violence.
For criminal law to become truly unexceptional, we must rethink our society, and its legal structures, as a whole.
The prison town of Susanville, in California, is about to lose its livelihood. Its economic survival presents a test for abolition.
Human sacrifice, and nothing else, is the central problem that organizes the carceral geographies of the prison-industrial complex.
Fines and fees have a devastating effect on Black women and their communities. Abolishing them is the only option.
Co-opting the language of mental health and treatment, jail expansion is taking root in several cities and localities. But these are cages all the same.
Law enforcement of women’s bodies is a structural and systematic form of police violence. All of us are less safe if we don’t end this brutal expression of state-sanctioned power.
Maternal incarceration is but a phase for the people who experience it. It doesn’t define them.
Mental health professionals call the police, work with the police, and act like the police. But even in our ranks, an abolitionist future is possible.
Understanding the democratic appeal of retrenchment and reaction to movements for racial justice has never been more urgent.
Racist gang profiling on the street becomes hard data, which then feeds a sprawling detention and deportation machine with the imprimatur of law.
Criminalization of so-called drug-induced homicides is yet another manifestation of the failed war on drugs — and far from an adequate public health response.
Sentences
—James Kilgore, an advocate against electronic surveillance, in “Deconfiguring the Security State”
Series
A collection of essays on the Supreme Court’s relationship to our crisis of mass incarceration.
We can celebrate the ascent of Ketanji Brown Jackson, while acknowledging that indigent defense remains woefully inadequate in this time of crisis.
The loss of the fundamental right to reproductive freedom will only lead to more state surveillance and criminalization of pregnant people.
We must not pretend that the countless people who are routinely targeted by police are isolated.
Judge Michelle Childs’ many denials of compassionate release signal a carceralism that should have no place on the Supreme Court.
The Supreme Court doesn’t need another Stephen Breyer. It needs someone who can openly confront the immorality of our criminal legal system.
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