Saturday, January 3, 2015

Do we really need the police? Not as much as we need air.

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The astoundingly crude and arrogant response of NYPD rank and file to the tragic murder of two officers by an unstable young man last month ...
Friday, December 5, 2014

If Black Lives Matter, End the War on Crime

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From the perspective of tens of thousands of protesters around the nation this week, the deaths of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and ...
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Proposition 47: A Simple Step Toward Reducing Mass Incarceration

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California Proposition 47, on the ballot for voter consideration this November, would change the legal classification of many "nonserio...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Carceral Geographies: Mapping the escape routes from mass incarceration

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Today and tomorrow (September 8-19) at UC Berkeley we will be launching a new undergraduate “ course thread ”  titled “ Carceral Geo...
Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Ferguson and Human Dignity

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Michael Brown was buried yesterday (August 25, 2014) in St. Louis, near his hometown of Ferguson, Missouri. As the world knows by now, two w...
Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Inhumanity: The Real Problem with Mass Incarceration

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We may disagree on who belong and who does not belong in prison, or on how long prison sentences should be, or what goals those sentences s...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Life in Prison with the Remote Possibility of Death: The Death Penalty and California's Broken Punishment Paradigm

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Judge Carney's 39 page opinion finding California's death penalty is already setting off a wave of debate in the media. We will see ...