Lawyerless No More
Once a person is imprisoned, indigent defense stops. But the gravity of mass incarceration demands legal representation to the very end.
27 posts in ‘interventions’
Once a person is imprisoned, indigent defense stops. But the gravity of mass incarceration demands legal representation to the very end.
Inquest joins over a dozen progressive media organizations to build power and create accountability based on social justice.
Progressive prosecutors have delivered tangible and rapid wins to a grassroots movement seeking to end mass incarceration.
Prosecution can be redefined to focus on effective problem-solving through policies and initiatives that make us a safer, healthier community.
People condemned to die in prison are telling the world about it—and fighting to free one another in the process.
Reparations for historic wrongs require concrete action, and that's no different for the untold harm caused by cannabis criminalization.
By helping non-incarcerated people to experience a human connection with people inside, volunteering can open a curtain in the mind.
Life in prison is hard. Transitioning back home through reentry shouldn’t be harder.
Community-based gun violence prevention is at a crossroads. A group in Chicago shows how abolition may hold the key to its future.
Imagining the decarceral possibilities of plea strikes and defendant unions.
How radical lawyers played a key role standing up for survivors of the Attica uprising.
The rule was supposed to prevent prosecutors from hiding evidence. It hasn’t worked—but there’s a better way.
It's high time we reconsider the power and promise of hunger strikes — without denying the tactic’s radical, disruptive, and self-violent character.
One might say incarcerated Muslims sue religiously. And true enough, a deep belief in justice is what moves them to resist oppression this way.
Now more than ever, we need a clear understanding of the role of violence, trauma, and survivorship in our harm reduction practice.
Jurors’ conscientious refusal to convict people charged for violating abortion bans is perfectly legal — and what justice demands.
The criminal legal system is massively punitive toward people who commit sex offenses. How we treat them jeopardizes their health and safety — and our own.
One path to ending mass incarceration is ending our modern conception of public defense. And being transparent about our work is one way to start.
The scourge of plea bargaining is robbing millions of a different, and just as fundamental, kind of liberty.
The largest public health professional organization in the U.S. took a stand against carceral systems as fundamentally antithetical to public health. Here’s why that matters.
There’s a direct link between the penal system and community wellbeing. Here’s why, and how, I decided to teach that connection to a group of public-health students.
Our movement was born out of our shared grief. Our voices reminded voters that the police should never police themselves.
We can't end mass incarceration without first ending solitary confinement once and for all.
Older New Yorkers are dying in state prison at an alarming rate. Once and for all, they need to come home to their families.
How public defenders in New York City organized to speak up for those who have died on Rikers — and to keep others from going there.
As demands grow louder for decarcerating and shutting down New York City’s deadly jail complex, judges and prosecutors have escaped accountability. But they’re the ones driving the crisis.
Nothing short of immediately getting people out of New York City's jail complex, and keeping others from going in, will prevent the death and horror now ravaging it.