Research Archive – Carceral State Project-DCCR Site

CSP Publishes History of Washtenaw County Jail

“Washtenaw County Jail: Politics, Power, and Resistance in a College Town” is the first in a series of investigative reports by the Confronting Conditions of…

Critical Carceral Visualities Team Publishes “Images of Detained Youth through an Abolitionist Lens”

The Critical Carceral Visualities research team has published its third StoryMap, Images of Detained Youth through an Abolitionist Lens. These StoryMaps encourage viewers to interrogate the fraught relationship…

CSP Publishes “Deadly Force by Off-Duty Officers”

“Deadly Force by Off-Duty Officers: Investigating Homicides and Brutality by Detroit Police, 1994-2014,” is a multimedia report created by Corey Schneck of the Policing and Social…

DCC Publishes Multimedia Investigation of Kinross Prison Uprising of 2016

“Kinross Uprising, Michigan 2016: The Silenced Revolt over Basic Human Rights in Prison” is a multimedia investigative report that documents the origins, events, and implications of an uprising of incarcerated persons at a maximum security prison known as Kinross in Kinchloe, Michigan, in the Upper Peninsula. The investigation, conducted by six students on the Confronting Conditions of Confinement team, involved detailed and immersive research in the town of Kinross; interviews with lawyers, guards, union officials, and politicians; and documents from newspapers, legal records, and more. The report is built on a partnership between academic researchers and impacted communities and reveals how incarcerated people resist both survive and resist the conditions of their confinement, refusing to let carceral structures or policies strip them of their humanity.

Kinross Uprising, Michigan 2016: The Silenced Revolt over Basic Human Rights in Prison A student team with the DCC’s “Confronting Conditions of Confinement” research initiative…

DCC Publishes “Cops or Robbers? The Dangers of Invisible Policing”

Cops or Robbers? The Dangers of Invisible Policing This multimedia investigative report, created by Zev Miklethun for the Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab, examines the…

Afterlives of Conviction Team Unveils Project Website

The Afterlives of Conviction Project, led by Professor Melissa Burch, recently launched a new website that aims to deepen understanding of the experience of living with a criminal record…

DCC Publishes Multimedia Report on Detroit Police Assault on Poor People’s Campaign, May 1968

Poor People’s Campaign, Detroit 1968: Investigating the Police Assault on Nonviolent Civil Rights Marchers in a Northern City In May 1968, white officers in the…

CSP Co-Sponsors Panel Discussion “Black Resistance in the STRESS Era”

“Black Resistance in the STRESS Era: Commemorating the Lives of Ricardo Buck and Craig Mitchell” (Sept. 18, 2021). On Sept. 17, 1971, Black teenagers Ricardo…

DCC Publishes Investigative Report of Police Violence against Black Women in Detroit

Silence, Power, and Injustice: Historical Patterns of Police Violence against Women in Detroit This multimedia investigative report, created by Lily Johnston for the Policing and…

Ashley Lucas Publishes “The End of Rage: A Black Panther in Prison Makes a Reckoning”

“The End of Rage: A Black Panther in Prison Makes a Reckoning: The Story of Russell Maroon Shoatz” Plough Quarterly Magazine, Sept. 15, 2021 By Ashley…