US Federal Politics

Posts on the intersections of national politics and criminal justice.

Series Review: Night Stalker: The Hunt for a Serial Killer

January 16, 2021

Netflix’s new docuseries about the hunt for Richard Ramirez, known as the Night Stalker, comes to our computer screens at an interesting cultural moment, in which national and state responses

Do Some Rich People Think Democracy is Beneath Them?

January 5, 2021

In case the horrific damage Trump and Trumpism have done to our democracy was not obvious from the horrendous crimes in plain view of the last few days (or the

What’s Up With the Pandemic Rise in Homicide Rates? Or, Beware the Lazy “Mass Releases” Take

December 30, 2020

There’s a really interesting op-ed by Jeff Asher and Ben Horwitz of AP Analytics in yesterday’s USA Today about the 2020 rise in homicide rates. Here’s an excerpt: The FBI

The California COVID-19 Prison Tragedy, in Four Snapshots

December 6, 2020

Something is rotten in the state of California. Rotten throughout, from top to bottom. In today’s post I juxtapose for you four pieces from the last couple of days, which

Carceral Permeability, “Pandemics of the Self” and “Pandemics of the Other”

December 4, 2020

If you told me before March 2020 that the entire state of California would be atwitter about two dinner parties at a fancy restaurant on two consecutive nights, I would

Políticas Penales y Penitenciarias en EEUU durante la Administración Trump: Rupturas y Continuidades

December 1, 2020

Hola Amigos Latinoamericanos y Centroamericanos, y otros amigos que hablan español. Hoy di una plática, via Zoom, a la Facultad de Derecho en la Universidad de Buenos Aires sobre las

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