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, …
Read More >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. …
Read More >Cesraéa Rumpf, author of RECOVERING IDENTITY, writes about criminalized women “rehabilitating” their identities.
Read More >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 …
Read More >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 …
Read More >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, …
Read More >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 …
Read More >Orisanmi Burton describes his approach to writing his new book through a methodological approach he developed called archival war.
Read More >Author Calvin John Smiley writes about the issues regarding the transition from prison to reentry in society
Read More >By Susan Sered, author of Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility The following blog is reposted from the author’s ongoing blog about updates from the women of Can’t Catch …
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