CDCR, Don’t Play Tetris with Human Lives
In her 2018 book Building the Prison State, my colleague Heather Schoenfeld provides a retrospective of the incarceration explosion in Florida. The root of the problem–the situation that facilitated the
Blackface Scandals Are the Logical Conclusion of the Performative Goodness Race
As if we don’t have bigger tofu slices to fry–with 57 days till the election, we absolutely do–the academic/activist left is atwitter (pun intended) about yet another blackface scandal. This
Brief on Behalf of Amici Curiae Filed in Von Staich, and an Extra Helping of Cruelty
Today I submitted an Amicus Curiae brief on behalf of the ACLU of Northern California and eighteen criminal justice scholars in In re Von Staich, another San Quentin-related COVID-19 relief
Why I’m Leery of Racial Confessionals
“Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions,
Don’t Get Yanked by a Bad Man’s Chain
By all rights, we should spend our day mourning a national civil rights hero and taking heed of his stirring words of inspiration, as well as his eulogy given by
Readings in Deep Ecology and Interconnectedness
Lately I’ve been thinking about environmental ethics quite a bit. I came to it through noticing patterns and values in vegan and animal rights groups, and partnering with my brilliant
BREAKING NEWS: Outbreak at Santa Rita Jail; BSCC to Lift Fog off COVID-19 in Jails
Distressing news from Santa Rita Jail: The Mercury News reports: At least 40 inmates have tested positive for the coronavirus within nearly a 24-hour period, the jail’s largest outbreak since
My Years as a Legal Alien
The Trump Administration’s erratic response to the coronavirus has mindlessly pivoted between posing as if the virus does not exist, is a hoax, etc., and taking absurd measures against a
On Credibility and Goodness
The last few days have seen numerous stories discrediting Tara Reade, the woman who accused Joe Biden of rape, to the point that convictions based on her testimony could be
Yesterday’s Monsters Book Talk at Tattered Cover
Today I gave a book talk at Denver’s legendary bookstore Tattered Cover and very much enjoyed discussing Yesterday’s Monsters with the wonderful Mikaley Osley. Here’s the video of the event.