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Pinkwashing Prisons
Efforts to improve incarceration for women ultimately support a system that is worse for all.
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13 posts in ‘Beyond Reform’
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No More Pretrial Punishment
In my many years as a public defender, I accepted the legal rationales for pretrial detention. But I can’t anymore.
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Maybe, If . . .
Believing that prosecutors can play a role in ending mass incarceration requires imagining a prosecutor whose goal is non-reformist reforms.
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Disability Justice Demands Abolition
When people need care, then the solution should be to get them care, not increase the risk of police violence.
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No Place for Families
Only an end to family court can lead to a radical reimagining of how we support children and caregivers.
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Why Incarcerated People Work
A new research project seeks to understand present prison labor conditions—and build a path toward lasting freedom.
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Procedural Justice Isn’t Enough
In immigration court and beyond, fair process matters. But fair laws, fair legal systems, and fair societies matter far more.
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Poor People Lose
Gideon v. Wainwright is the wrong cure for the reality that the carceral system is designed to target poor people.
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Data and Liberation
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.
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Reclaiming Safety
In our imaginations, we need to break the equation of policing and public safety.
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No More Courts
The legal institutions, processes, procedures, and actors implicated in the progression of criminal cases are simply beyond reform.
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Rethinking the State
For criminal law to become truly unexceptional, we must rethink our society, and its legal structures, as a whole.
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Unraveling Carceral Reach
The work of addressing harm without more prisons, police, and punitiveness is daunting. But it can be done. And it’s happening now.