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Prison Abolition Developments in the Law

Abolition as Praxis of Human Being: A Foreword

Vol. 132 No. 6 April 2019 I. The Long Abolitionist Project What are the historical conditions and political imperatives of “abolition” as a contemporary praxis? How does abolition generate a...

Dylan Rodríguez

Prison Abolition Developments in the Law

Abolition And Reparations: Histories of Resistance, Transformative Justice, And Accountability

Vol. 132 No. 6 April 2019 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...

Patrisse Cullors

Prison Abolition Developments in the Law

In Spite of Prison

Vol. 132 No. 6 April 2019 How does a former gang-banging, gun-toting Latino serving a thirty-year prison sentence, the product of an elderly uneducated immigrant father and a drug-addicted mother,...

Angel E. Sanchez

Criminal Law Recent Case

Chandler v. State

Supreme Court of Mississippi Affirms A Sentence of Life Without Parole For A Juvenile Offender.

Vol. 132 No. 6 April 2019

Prison Abolition Developments in the Law

Envisioning Abolition Democracy

Vol. 132 No. 6 April 2019 What is, so to speak, the object of abolition? Not so much the abolition of prisons but the abolition of a society that could...

Allegra M. McLeod

Criminal Law Blog Essay

Evaluating New York’s “Revenge Porn” Law: A Missed Opportunity to Protect Sexual Privacy

March 19, 2019 Six years after lawmakers first considered the issue of nonconsensual pornography, New York has criminalized the practice. We wholeheartedly support the effort in our role...

Immigration Articles

Segregation by Citizenship

Vol. 132 No. 5 March 2019 For centuries, prisoners in the United States were housed together regardless of their citizenship status. That changed in 1999 when the federal government began...

Emma Kaufman

First Amendment Recent Case

Commonwealth v. Knox

True Threat Doctrine — Pennsylvania Supreme Court Finds Rap Song a True Threat.

Vol. 132 No. 5 March 2019

Feminism Recent Election

California Judge Recalled for Sentence in Sexual Assault Case

Vol. 132 No. 4 February 2019 Judges inhabit what is often considered the most independent branch of government. Unlike officials of other branches, who are democratically accountable, judges are thought...

Effective Assistance of Counsel Articles

The Effects of Holistic Defense on Criminal Justice Outcomes

Vol. 132 No. 3 January 2019 Debates over mass incarceration emphasize policing, bail, and sentencing reform, but give little attention to indigent defense. This omission seems surprising, given that interactions...