Thursday, March 20, 2014

Dying Inside: Lifers, the Dying, and California's Correctional Paradigm

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Before the hospice program started by prison chaplain Lorie Adolff, dying prisoners in California's state prison in San Luis Obsipo (Cal...
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...