How to Talk to Our Kids About Prison
Today we took our five-year-old son to visit Alcatraz. We had been talking about prisons for a while, and I’ve been telling him some of what we have been doing
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Whole Food, Plant-Based School Lunches!
It’s been a big week for our family! The news about FESTER’s dispatch to our publisher are small potatoes compared to the bigger journey: Our son is now a schoolboy!
Prison-Community Transmissivity Model: COVID-19 Management in Prisons Would Have Prevented Almost 12,000 Deaths in CA
It’s been a very busy week, but an accomplished one: Chad Goerzen and I finished writing FESTER and sent the manuscript off to University of California Press. We are very
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FESTER: Carceral Permeability and California’s COVID-19 Correctional Disaster
Join me at UC Berkeley’s Center for the Study of Law & Society for a talk about my forthco...
October 10 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm PDT