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CALIFORNIA POLITICS AND JUSTICE ISSUES

Are Nonprofits that Employ People with Criminal Records Good or Bad? It Depends on Your Perspective

May 30, 2024
You’re probably familiar with the image at the top. Created by Danish psychologist Edgar Rubin, the face/vase illusion tests the modularity of perception: you can see the vase, or you
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Damages Lawsuits for Prison COVID-19 Neglect Proceed

May 24, 2024
If you’ve followed this blog during COVID-19, when we were litigating Eighth Amendment cases at Quentin and beyond, or read FESTER (you should!), then you know an unpleasant truth about
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Will the Protean Quality of Profiling Overcome Pretext Stop Reform?

February 8, 2024
In 2014, Chuck Epp, Steve Maynard-Moody and Don Haider-Markel published their wonderful book Pulled Over. The book is based on a survey of, and follow-up interviews with, more than 2,000
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Prison Systems Still Making COVID19-Era Mistakes

February 3, 2024
The last chapter of our book FESTER, which is already out from University of California Press, is called “The Next Plague.” We wrote it to warn everyone in prison administration,
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Carrying and Using Narcan

November 13, 2023
There’s very little I can do about the horrors happening in the Old Country. But there are other, more mundane, horrors happening every day in the Tenderloin, where I work
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Fester Book Cover

News! FESTER Available for Preorder

October 22, 2023
We’re live! FESTER, my book with Chad Goerzen about the COVID-19 catastrophe in California prisons and jails, is available for preorder on the UC Press website and on Amazon. The
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