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Gideon Turns Sixty
The Court’s decision must not preempt questions about the role public defenders can play in ending mass incarceration.
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A New Clarity
We need new words and understandings — not only for crime, freedom, and responsibility, but also for history and spacetime — because it gets us closer to an abolitionist world.
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The Poverty of Access
Librarians have a responsibility to everyone in their communities — including those who are incarcerated.
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Beyond Private Prisons
Simply targeting the corporations caging migrants and other people for profit won’t create a future without mass incarceration.
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Copaganda
How pop culture helped turn police officers into rock stars — and Black folks into criminals.
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Radicalized at the Workhouse
The criminal legal system almost took my life from me. The anger that came after now fuels my life’s work.
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Where Choice Ends
Unless and until mass incarceration is ended, Roe v. Wade, and reproductive freedom writ large, will never be safe.
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The Keeper and the Kept
The carceral system dehumanizes not just the people we condemn, but also its massive workforce.