Tag: Reform
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Abolition Requires Struggle
What a time it is to be a prison abolitionist! Millions of people filled the streets during the 2020 uprisings, forcing a national conversation around defunding and abolishing the police. The abolitionist lexicon broke into the mainstream. Suddenly everyone had—and had to have—an opinion on the movement.
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The Failure of Police Reform
Two weeks after uprisings sparked by the murder of George Floyd left Atlanta littered with ashes, protesters flooded the city’s streets once more. The police had killed again, and this time the victim was an Atlantan: 27-year-old father and music lover Rayshard Brooks, shot in the back twice by Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe. The Wendy’s where Rolfe…
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Three Reasons Advocates Must Move Beyond Demanding Release for “Nonviolent Offenders”
Covid-19 has presented a crisis — one that’s especially visible in prisons, jails, and detention centers, where an inability to social distance, daily regimes of brutality, and persistently unsanitary conditions make incarcerated people particularly vulnerable.
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Decoding Decarceration: Race, Risk, and Reform in New Jersey, 1986-2017
My senior thesis, completed in Spring 2019, focused on recent decades of criminal legal reform in New Jersey and their consequences.
micah herskind 