Beyond Reform
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.
4 posts in ‘community bail funds’
In my many years as a public defender, I accepted the legal rationales for pretrial detention. But I can’t anymore.
Acting within the criminal legal system cannot be the solution, on its own, to the existence of the carceral state.
As organizers in Illinois know well, it is necessary to engage with criminalizing institutions to better learn how to defeat them.
Organizing and collective acts of resistance allow us to not only imagine new understandings of justice and safety, but to live them out.