Why are prisons, jails, and detention facilities so vulnerable to COVID-19? What can be done to help? JOIN US to find out! Three UC Hastings journals are coming together to organize an important symposium on incarceration and healthcare, focusing on the COVID-19 prison crisis. We are excited to invite you–details will follow. For now, please […]
The Hastings Race and Poverty Law Journal, Hastings Women’s Law Journal, and the Hastings Journal of Crime and Punishment with the support of the Institute for Criminal Justice at UC Hastings are coming together to host an important symposium on incarceration and healthcare, focusing on the COVID-19 crisis. SAVE THE DATES! FEB. 5, 12:00 – 5:00 […]
Join us for Day 2 of our symposium on healthcare and incarceration in CA! Today's events focus on gender and reproductive justice behind bars: 12:00 PM Introduction 12:10 PM Transgender Healthcare in Prisons: Panel Discussion Ava Agree, moderator, UC Hastings Omar Garcia, panelist, Transgender Law Center Jasmine Jones, panelist, Transgender Gender-Variant & Intersex Justice Project Jen Orthwein, panelist, Medina Orthwein […]
Join us for the third and final day of California Correctional Crisis: Mass Incarceration, Healthcare, and the COVID-19 Outbreak! 12:00 PM Introduction 12:10 PM Immigration Detention and COVID-19: Panel Discussion Blaine Bookey, moderator, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies Grisel Ruiz, panelist, Immigrant Legal Resource Center Lisa Knox, panelist, California Collaborative for […]
Join me and my colleagues, fellow JSP graduates Ashley Rubin and Ming Hsu Chen, as well as fellow JSP graduate and moderator KT Albiston, to celebrate the publication of our respective books: Ashley's The Deviant Prison, Ming's Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era, and my Yesterday's Monsters!
SUNY Buffalo's Baldy Center hosts me for a talk about my recent book Yesterday's Monsters--and I promise to talk some about how the book sheds light on the COVID-19 prison disaster. Please join us!
Join me, UCLA professor Sharon Dolovich, Ella Baker Center State Campaigner James King, and California Coalition of Women Prisoners' Jane Dorotik, for this important conversation!
Proceedings have begun in Marin County Superior Court against San Quentin State Prison and the California Department of Corrections (CDCR) for what one judge has called “the worst epidemiological disaster in California correctional history.” More than 300 individuals have filed ‘habeas corpus’ petitions, alleging the prison violated 8th Amendment protections against “cruel and unusual punishment” […]
Very chuffed to invite everyone to a wonderful book release party for Nomi Levenkron and Tamar Kricheli-Katz's new anthology in Hebrew Law and Policing. The event (in Hebrew) happens both in person and on Zoom (please RSVP here to get the link.) The program includes my talk about American influences on Israeli policing trends and […]
As part of the Association of Israel Studies Annual Meeting at Bar Ilan University, I'll present the paper, "'But What About Arab-on-Arab Crime?' A Comparative View on the Contradictions and Challenges of Addressing Intraethnic and Intraracial Violence", which applies perspectives from American Political Development (APD) to the understanding of intraracial crime comparisons between Israel and […]
Panel on innovations in criminal law! I'll be commenting on papers ranging from the politics of self defense to criminal responsibility of AI entities.
At the LSA Annual Meeting in Lisbon, I will be the discussant for a panel about the emotional toll of conducting research; in my remarks, I'll share some of the experiences of working on my forthcoming book FESTER and supporting people behind bars in their darkest hours.