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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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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
Dismantling the Police and Prisons: A Reading List
From the massive prison system of California, to an abolitionist sanctuary movement, and the reimagining of how to provide safety in Puerto Rico, the following recommended titles offer in-depth research on alternatives …
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Apr
What Is Prison Supposed To Do and Why?
For three decades, scholar-activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore has been advocating for prison abolition. She has theorized it and practiced it. For Gilmore, prison abolition means not just the closing of prisons but, …
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Dec
Human Rights Day: A Focus on Prison Reform
Today is Human Rights Day, which commemorates the day on which, in 1948, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We felt moved to turn this year’s focus on prisoner’s …
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Dec
Measuring the Bangkok Rules
This post is published prior to Human Rights Day (December 10) and after the American Society of Criminology conference (November 16 – 19). #ASC2016 #HumanRightsDay by Barbara Owen, co-author of In Search of Safety: Confronting Inequality …
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