Conditions of Confinement, COVID-19, and the CDC
Chapter Four
Vol. 134 No. 6
Criminal Justice
Desmond’s Law: Early Impressions of Connecticut’s Court Advocate Program for Animal Cruelty Cases
Vol. 134 No. 5
In March 2012, police found the body of a dog in a trash bag in the woods of Madison, Connecticut. The dog was Desmond....
In the Shadows: McCoy v. Alamu
Editor's Note: This piece is the first in our new series covering the Supreme Court's "shadow docket" — emergency orders and summary decisions outside the...
The Prisoner Trade
Vol. 133 No. 6
It is tempting to assume that the United States has fifty distinct state prison systems. For a time, that assumption was correct. In the...
Immigration Detention and Abolition
Prison abolitionism has gained traction. Louisiana, for example, has taken steps recently to reduce the population of the state’s prisons. In June 2017, the...
Gibson v. Collier
Transgender rights are facing a backlash. Scientific knowledge of the impacts of gender dysphoria (GD) has grown immensely, and medical care for transgender people...
Abolition And Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice, And Accountability
Vol. 132 No. 6
The historical context of abolition is minimally understood, either in today’s social movements or in U.S. society more broadly. For our political strategies and...
Envisioning Abolition Democracy
Vol. 132 No. 6
What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society that could...
Striking the Right Balance: Toward a Better Understanding of Prison Strikes
Vol. 132 No. 5
From August 21, 2018, to September 9, 2018, incarcerated individuals across America orchestrated a daring and seemingly improbable coordinated protest: they went on strike....
The Right to Be Heard from Immigration Prisons: Locating a Right of Access to Counsel for Immigration Detainees in the Right of Access to Courts
Vol. 132 No. 2
Introduction The United States government holds 39,000 people in immigration detention every day. In 2016, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained 359,520 people....