Reclaiming Whren
How a committed critical race theorist on the bench might have written one of the worst Fourth Amendment cases in history.
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How a committed critical race theorist on the bench might have written one of the worst Fourth Amendment cases in history.
Our nation’s turn toward punitiveness for people arriving at the Southwest border coincided with the modern era of mass incarceration.
On the 50th anniversary of a flashpoint of the American penal system, the cries of Attica still resonate today.
In the struggle to end mass incarceration, one must understand how the criminalization of violence is largely a modern creation.
One year after a governor's clemency, Renaldo Hudson, who spent 37 years incarcerated, reflects on violence, prisons, and the vital importance of education and support for those incarcerated.
Like torture and the death penalty, mass incarceration is life-destroying. And indefensible.
Reckoning with the lives of all the men I sent to prison is a necessary, though not sufficient, step to reckon with the untold harm of mass incarceration.
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