Friday, February 21, 2014

Abandoning a Failed Penal Experiment: New York's Historic Advantage

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New York has made it share of bad penal policy choices.  Remember the "Rockefeller Drug Laws"; mandatory life sentences for person...
Thursday, February 6, 2014

From Humanity to Health: Why Can't California Get Prison Healthcare Right?

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Yesterday to no doubt considerable embarrassment in the Brown-Beard administration, admissions to California's newest prison near Stockt...
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014

From the War on Crime to World War Z: What the Zombie Apocalypse can Tell Us About the Current State of our Culture of Fear

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Zombies are everywhere.  Ok not (yet) on the streets (so far as I know); but in our cultural imaginary they are everywhere.  You can find th...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Yes Virginia, there is a death penalty: Reflections on the Christmas Moratorium

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On the 19th of December, the paper of record, the New York Times, ran a story discussing the lower number of executions (39) in 2013 than in...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Mass Incarceration and Mass Deportation: Twin Legacies of Governing through Crime

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One afflicts mostly American citizens, disproportionately those of African American and Latino backgrounds from areas of concentrated povert...
Monday, December 2, 2013

"Justice" in the Murder Years: More Tales from the Brooklyn Crypt

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The New York Times continues its on going series of investigatory features on wrongful convictions or likely wrongful convictions produced b...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Dallas 1963 and the Culture of Fear

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Today Americans in many large cities are experiencing levels of homicide last experienced in the mid-1950s. This is the result of a crime de...