Making Men Pay
For incarcerated fathers, child-support and related debt create their own feedback loops of disadvantage and punishment.
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For incarcerated fathers, child-support and related debt create their own feedback loops of disadvantage and punishment.
Human sacrifice, and nothing else, is the central problem that organizes the carceral geographies of the prison-industrial complex.
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.
Writing about people you encounter in prison carries special responsibilities.
We must not pretend that the countless people who are routinely targeted by police are isolated.
How e-carceration grabbed a hold of Camden is a cautionary tale for those of us who envision a future without policing.
Our nation’s turn toward punitiveness for people arriving at the Southwest border coincided with the modern era of mass incarceration.
Entire communities are singularly exposed to punishment. Understanding how is central to combating mass incarceration.
How pop culture helped turn police officers into rock stars — and Black folks into criminals.
In ways large and small, defendants who try to assert their voice in the criminal legal system see their agency denied — including, sometimes, by their own lawyers.