Unmaking Prison Walls
Reacquainting ourselves with practices that made prisons more permeable can be a step toward ending mass incarceration.
9 posts in ‘criminalization’
Reacquainting ourselves with practices that made prisons more permeable can be a step toward ending mass incarceration.
Taking criminal law out of immigration enforcement is a step toward safer, healthier communities. But is it enough?
How white, middle-class youth in the suburbs experienced the war on drugs is a largely untold chapter in the arc of mass incarceration.
Misdemeanors are major sources of overcriminalization and punishment. Requiring jurors to screen them could shake up the system.
Absent a sustained politics of solidarity, culture wars will continue to erode civil rights while criminalizing, surveilling, and punishing those who claim them
Here’s how federal cash assistance for low-income youth impacts whether they come in contact with the criminal legal system.
The legal institutions, processes, procedures, and actors implicated in the progression of criminal cases are simply beyond reform.
Carceral feminists clamored for the Violence Against Women Act. What they got in return was criminalization, incarceration, and more violence.
Criminalization of so-called drug-induced homicides is yet another manifestation of the failed war on drugs — and far from an adequate public health response.