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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!

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 […]