The Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab, in partnership with CEDER in the UM School of Education, has released three series of curriculum guides for instructors…
Category: Detroit as Carceral Space
Dominic Coschino Publishes Column on Wayne County Jail Litigation in Free Press Flashback
Dominic Coschino, a research associate with the Carceral State Project, published “Cockrel, Ravitz and Inmates Take on the Wayne County Jail” in the Detroit Free Press,…
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…
Matt Lassiter Publishes Expose of Detroit’s STRESS Police Unit in Free Press Flashback
Matt Lassiter, “Demise of STRESS, Detroit’s Deadliest Police Squad, Began with Death of Teens,” Detroit Free Press, Sept, 5, 2021 Ricardo Buck and Craig Mitchell were…
DCC Publishes “Detroit’s Carceral Landscape: Police, Politics, and Profit in America’s Blackest City–and How Detroiters are Reimagining the Future”
“Detroit’s Carceral Landscape: Police, Politics, and Profit in America’s Blackest City–and How Detroiters are Reimagining the Future” by David Helps and Christine Hwang for the…
DCC Publishes “Project Green Light” Report about Detroit Police Surveillance Technology
“Project Green Light: Surveillance and the Spaces of the City” by Rebecca Smith is part of the “Detroit as a Carceral Space” collaboration between the…
David Helps Publishes “The Police: Gentrification’s Shock Troops” (Nov. 2020)
DCC researcher David Helps, a coordinator of the Detroit as a Carceral Space research initiative, has published “The Police: Gentrification’s Shock Troops” in the online…
DCC Publishes “What Happened to Cynthia Scott? A Brutal Murder, Blatant Coverup, and Cries for Justice”
The Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab has published “What Happened to Cynthia Scott? A Brutal Murder, Blatant Coverup, and Cries for Justice” on the 57th anniversary…
David Helps in Washington Post: Covid-19 Outbreaks at Jails and Prisons Should Make Us Rethink Incarceration (June 25, 2020)
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…
DCC-Mellon Collaboration Publishes Infographics for “We Live 24/7 in Hell”
DCC has published two infographics about the experiences of incarcerated people in the Wayne County Jail between 1968 and 1971. Created for the DCC-Mellon partnership…