By Jeffrey S. Adler, author of Bluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality The horrific recent murders of Tyre Nichols, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Laquan McDonald, …
By Rebecca Sharpless, author of Shackled: 92 Refugees Imprisoned on ICE Air My new book Shackled recounts the harrowing real-life experiences of 92 individuals abused during a failed deportation flight to Somalia. …
Stories of teen sexting scandals, cyberbullying, and image-based sexual abuse have become commonplace fixtures of the digital age, with many adults struggling to identify ways to monitor young people’s digital engagement. In …
By Francine Banner, author of Beyond Complicity: Why We Blame Each Other Instead of Systems What does it mean to be complicit? This question is at the heart of my book, Beyond …
In This Place Called Prison offers a vivid account of religious life within an institution designed to punish. Rachel Ellis conducted a year of ethnographic fieldwork inside a U.S. state women’s prison, …
By SpearIt, author of Muslim Prisoner Litigation: An Unsung American Tradition “Prison jihad” is a real thing happening in American prisons across the country. While this idea might conjure up all sorts …