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CALIFORNIA POLITICS AND JUSTICE ISSUES

Age Is the Most Important Predictor of Risk

CalMatters, whose reporting on California prisons has been superb in the last few years, have a new article out by Cayla Mihalovich, which takes a look at the recent California
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FESTER Wins ASC Book Award

Friends, I’m thrilled (and quite surprised and shocked) to share with you the good news that our book FESTER: Carceral Permeability and California’s COVID-19 Correctional Disaster has won the American Society of
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Parsing Out Evidentiary/Procedural Issues in Nima Momeni Murder Trial

“You play fast and loose with the rules of war, Monsieur.” “I play to win, Monsieur.” –Horatio Hornblower The jury is still out (literally!) at Nima Momeni’s trial for the
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Lessons from CA Propositions on the 2024 Ballot: Instead of Admonishing, Listen

The election came and went, and we all know how that turned out. The Internet is full of Jeremiads and admonitions about the presidential outcome, and surely one more riff
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In Memoriam: Barry Krisberg

eulogy prepared for a memorial panel at the American Society of Criminology 2024 Annual Meeting In 2009, when we held our first California Correctional Crisis conference shortly after the order
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Euthanize the Death Penalty Already: Scenes from Capital Punishment’s Chronic Deathbed

(published: The Green Bag 27(3), Spring 2024) INTRODUCTION J.R.R. Tolkien’s immortal Lord of the Rings tells of the crossing of the Bridge of Khazad-dûm, during which members of the Fellowship
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