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Jun
Author Q&A with Justin Brooks
“With issues like bad lawyering, bad science, and inadequate investigations, it’s easy to draw the line between the cause and effect of a wrongful conviction.”
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Sep
Q&A with Tasseli McKay, author of Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power
Stolen Wealth, Hidden Power is a staggering account of the destruction wrought by mass incarceration. Finding that the economic value of the damages to Black individuals, families, and communities totals $7.16 trillion—roughly …
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Mar
A New Way to Assess the Far-Reaching Impacts of Mass Incarceration
By Jessica T. Simes, author of Punishing Places: The Geography of Mass Imprisonment Despite growing attention to the problem of mass incarceration, we are still only beginning to capture its far-reaching harms. …
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Jul
“Tiger Cages” in Vietnam: How the call for U.S. Prison Abolition is a Global Issue
By Stuart Schrader, author of Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing July 17, 2020 Fifty years ago today, Life magazine printed photographs taken inside a prison on an island …
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Jun
When it comes to racism in America, policing is just the tip of the iceberg
By Mugambi Jouet, author or Exceptional America: What Divides Americans From the World and From Each Other As America and the world ponder George Floyd’s appalling death, what lies beneath the tip …
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Nov
How to Partner with Correctional Populations
UC Press is proud to be part of the Association of University Press’s seventh annual University Press Week, whose overall theme this year is #TurnItUP: The university press community amplifies voices, disciplines, and …
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Oct
The Psychological Damage of Solitary Confinement
“When I testify in court, I am often asked: ‘What is the damage of long-term solitary confinement?’ . . . Many prisoners emerge from prison after years in solitary with very serious psychiatric symptoms …
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