" We used to think that if we improved policing we could escape its violence," Rachel
Herzing began. 1 It was November 2014, the fall that Darren Wilson killed Michael Brown …

When it comes to people of color, the Roberts Court treats" racism" as if it is an objective fact-
out there in the world, apparent to anyone who stumbles upon it. The Roberts Court invites …

In this Article we make the case for movement law, an approach to legal scholarship
grounded in solidarity, accountability, and engagement with grassroots organizing and left …

We are living in a time of grassroots demands to transform our built environment and our
relationships with one another and the earth. 2 To abolish prisons and police, rent, debt …

The Supreme Court has reversed many cases. But never has the Court reversed a right that
the Court itself had justified as important to a group's equal participation" in the economic …

Scholars and reformers have in recent years begun to imagine new and different
configurations for how the state can design policing institutions. These conversations have …

Jails and prisons are major sites of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Many
jurisdictions in the United States have therefore accelerated the release of low-risk …

This article reviews key works in the anthropology of mass incarceration, generated by
anthropologists and their interlocutors whose research is directed outside physical sites of …

Our Constitution, as it is and as it has been interpreted by our courts, serves white
supremacy. The twin projects of abolition and reconstruction remain incomplete, derailed …

On October 29, 1970, a group of prisoners gathered at Folsom State Prison, twenty miles
north of Sacramento. 2 Johnny Cash had made the prison famous when he recorded a live …