California Politics and Justice

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

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,

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

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

Film Review: 26.2 to Life

October 1, 2023

I still remember the incredible emotions that choked me as I took the last steps of the Oakland Marathon and realized that, yes, I was going to finish. Even with

FESTER Blurb from UCI’s Keramet Reiter

September 16, 2023

Another great endorsement for FESTER comes from Prof. Keramet Reiter of UC Irvine, one of the nation’s most respected and productive scholars of extreme punishment and incarceration and the author

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