Why Incarcerated People Work
A new research project seeks to understand present prison labor conditions—and build a path toward lasting freedom.
8 posts in ‘Beyond Reform’
A new research project seeks to understand present prison labor conditions—and build a path toward lasting freedom.
In immigration court and beyond, fair process matters. But fair laws, fair legal systems, and fair societies matter far more.
Gideon v. Wainwright is the wrong cure for the reality that the carceral system is designed to target poor people.
We need more and better data about deaths in custody. But we don't need this data to know that only decarceration will save lives.
In our imaginations, we need to break the equation of policing and public safety.
The legal institutions, processes, procedures, and actors implicated in the progression of criminal cases are simply beyond reform.
For criminal law to become truly unexceptional, we must rethink our society, and its legal structures, as a whole.
The work of addressing harm without more prisons, police, and punitiveness is daunting. But it can be done. And it’s happening now.