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Faculty Writing | @reproutopia in conversation with @ayagruber | "Leaning In to State Violence | for @_inquest_ | buff.ly/GjXQGXi
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upEND's @mvpendleton and @AlanDettlaff write for @_inquest_, "The destruction of Black and Native families is foundational to the U.S… Abolition of harmful systems that perpetuate racist inequities is the only way forward.” buff.ly/b1wihPq
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This is a really important & useful new report from @PrisonPolicy (and it cites an @_inquest_ essay from author @AlwaysStevie about prison transfers!)
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“The infrastructure of punishment does not discriminate. It only expands.” In Inquest's latest, #StopCopCity activists @micahinATL & @hannahcrileyy unveil the new state playbook for criminalizing democratic dissent. inquest.org/the-tools-of-rep…
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Thanks to Sonali Chakravarti @Wesleyan I will have some concrete guidance for my first call to jury duty later this month.
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Grateful to the folks at inquest for letting me share some thoughts about client counseling.
How might a defense lawyer counsel her client not just about an individual criminal case, but about the broader oppression of our system of mass incarceration?
Former public defender @APetrigh of @BU_Law offers insights. inquest.org/decarceral-couns…
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#BULawProf @APetrigh writes for @_inquest_ on the ways defense lawyers can not only counsel their clients on an individual criminal case, but the broader system of mass incarceration. Read here ⬇️ spr.ly/6012xmTPa
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The Migrant's Jail is excerpted in @_inquest_ today! It's about how we write the history of migrant incarceration in local jails--a practice the US has gone to enormous lengths to obscure--from a scattered, censored archive.
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“Its purpose is to punish. The harm that I witnessed is not just some unfortunate by-product of our pretrial system. The harm is the point”
For many years as a public defender, @JOlderma accepted the myth that pretrial detention existed to ensure return to court or else protect the community.
But reality showed her that its purpose was punishment. For that very reason, it must be ended.
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Thank you, @_inquest_ , for publishing this essay on the disappointing outcome in Comm. v. Gelin, and the urgent need to rethink policing reality and constitutional protection for those serving community supervision.
The right to be free from unreasonable government intrusion means nothing to the millions subject to probation—by far the most common form of criminal punishment in the U.S., writes @AHochmanBloom of @NUSL.
This leaves many people in a law-free zone. inquest.org/a-mere-hunch/
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Great to see "Fire Dreams" by Laura McTighe, @deon_haywood, & @WWAVinc
included in @_inquest_'s Year in Books!
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"These women carry the weight of multiple traumatic experiences that cause depression, fear, nightmares, and intrusive memories—symptoms associated with PTSD." | @_inquest_
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Phillip Vance Smith writes about the transformative and healing potential of restorative justice, despite the prison system putting up barriers to access it.
For @_inquest_ :
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Survival Art
“Art is not a leisure activity. Art is a redemptive, powerful, meditative, actionable force within a person—within a human being.”
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Mass Criminalization as Religion | @_inquest_
The deification of whiteness and property has long legitimized the containment of Black, Indigenous, and other racialized peoples.
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In Pittsburgh, a group of incarcerated & non-incarcerated artists is envisioning a world free from mass incarceration. Their creative collaboration seeks to challenge the status quo & inspire change through art.
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#artforchange #secondchances
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This is such an important article about the necessity of #art, and its power behind bars. Thanks @MarshallProj @JustADCohen for highlighting it.
@InQuest "Survival Art"
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The Prescription Police - Elizabeth Chiarello - Inquest inquest.org/the-prescription…
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Breaking the Chains | Tommaso Bardelli, Andrew Ross & Aiyuba Thomas | @_inquest_
Ending prison slavery and giving fair wages to incarcerated workers are necessary steps on the pathway to justice.
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💯Absolutely all this by @silkys13.
"We must reject the reduction of immigrant lives to “public safety” and “national security” frameworks, and we must instead put forth a narrative of belonging and collectivity that helps bridge our struggles for racial and migrant justice."
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