David Helps op-ed in the Made by History section of the Washington Post: “Covid-19 Outbreaks at Jails and Prisons Should Make Us Rethink Incarceration” (June…
Month: June 2020
Sophie Ordway–Implementing a ‘Good Time’ System in Michigan’s Prisons Would Fight Mass Incarceration (June 22, 2020)
DCC researcher Sophie Ordway, who is active in the Repeal “Truth in Sentencing” campaign, has published an editorial at the Michigan Journal of Public Affairs.…
Tyrone Lee Reyes-Putting Our Health at Risk (June 15, 2020)
To: The Carceral State Project From: Tyrone Lee Reyes It was looking as if things were looking brighter, with more and more Covid-19 patients recovering.…
Heather Thompson Interviewed in Vox on Historical Legacy of Protests against Police Violence
Read the Vox interview (June 2, 2020) with Heather Ann Thompson, DCC faculty researcher and Carceral State Project founder, on “How Today’s Protests Compare to…
Ali Friedman-Using Art to Tell Stories of Humanity, Pain, Sensitivity, Hope and Resilience
Ali Friedman is a research assistant for the Documenting Prison Education and the Arts (DPEA) team. In May 2020, she graduated with dual master’s degrees…
William Lopez in Slate: How America Treats Its Essential Workers (May 28, 2010)
William Lopez and Rebekah Diamond (Columbia University) profile Maria Domingo Garcia, an undocumented mother and ‘essential worker’ deported to Mexico, in Slate (May 28, 2020). Read…