Really excited about this book I co-edited with Lydia Pelot-Hobbs and Jack Norton in which organizers from around the country discuss and analyze their fights against jail construction. The Baffler has published an excerpt of our Introduction.

Excited to share Christina Heatherton's interview with
Judah Schept for new episode of
Conjuncturepod. They discuss his new book, Coal, Cages, Crisis: The Rise of the Prison Economy in Central Appalachia (@NYUpress). Hope you enjoy! youtu.be/duMNfrt56gc. 1/2

When you show up in the same room with everyone you are teaching this semester.

Y'all, check us out.
We are hiring a criminologist (or related scholar) in the Sociology department at the University of Tennessee. Please circulate to folks who might be interested. Deadline Sept. 30. apply.interfolio.com/112262.

We are still buzzing after our Beyond Punishment event on Wed. Thank you to everyone who came and to Guisi, Michelle and Kevin for leading our discussion. There are still so many conversations to be had, questions to be asked and ideas to unpack, but below are some reflections🧵

CAPScotland Thanks to CAPScotland, Michelle Brown, Kevin Neary@AidnAbet and who participated for the brave, compassionate and caring discussions we created. It was an honour to participate. We need more spaces like this and I am confident of being able to forge ahead. Much love to all involved!

📣📣📣 CAP is *so* excited to invite everyone to a panel discussion, Beyond Punishment, Many Studios on 22nd June! Come eat MILK Café delicious food and discuss, think and imagine how we can move beyond punishment. Tickets are limited so book through link below 👇

Graduates of Knox County Schools: Let your voice be heard regarding police and safety in schools! Michelle Brown

Central themes of love, joy, playfulness & worlding/making space. A useful shift away from tropes of crisis, danger, harm, suffering, critique. Sarah Armstrong asks maybe this is part of a generative politics of refusal? Gehan Macleod Michelle Brown SCCJR GalGael Trust #CAPS2022

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On behalf of CAP & our speakers Gehan Macleod Michelle Brown we're excited and hope you are too!
Solidarity, CAPScotland #CAPS2022

How can we strategically organise against punishment in Scotland? Fri 25th March 13.00-15.00 GMT
Gehan Macleod Deborah Coles Michelle Brown
share their thoughts ENOUGH! Scotland INQUEST SCCJR University of Glasgow UT Knoxville GalGael Trust govanfreestate

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If punishment is not the answer, WHAT IS? Join speakers Gehan Macleod Deborah Coles Michelle Brown to discuss how to organise against punishment in Scotland GalGael Trust govanfreestate ENOUGH! Scotland INQUEST Clean Break SCCJR University of Glasgow UT Knoxville

How we can organise against punishment?🤔JOIN US to discuss with Gehan Macleod and Michelle Brown GalGael Trust govanfreestate SCCJR UT Knoxville
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CAPScotland is hosting our next event with Gehan Macleod AND Michelle Brown ‼️ Fancy joining ⁉️❓
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Here's a book rejection that we just received from a prison in Tennessee: 'Malcolm X not allowed.'

This is part of an insidious pattern of targeted bans by prisons against Black authors and against literature critiquing the prison system and power structures in this country.

This book cover, y’all. 🔥🖤❤️👏 Abolition now. Gratitude, derecka

I wrote about how police are only making the overdose crisis worse, and how they need to be abolished.

I have written and abandoned drafts of this piece, which includes my sister's death, for over a year.

Criminalization is killing people.

truthout.org/articles/my-si…

Unpopular post...Only in America could anyone think that a prison sentence for more than twenty years is not harsh enough. If you know anything about prison, its utterly life destroying. I hope that we can move beyond the relentless desire for punishment. We need so much more.

If you’re wondering why it *looks* like the police are at war with us:

The United States police spending ranks third among worldwide military expenditures.

Last year CRIME MEDIA CULTURE gathered global voices to respond to the pandemic: journals.sagepub.com/toc/CMC/current

Now we invite you to our symposium including: Prof Alison Young Anthea Vogl Claire Loughnan Soledad O'Brother. Sarah Armstrong 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝗳𝗮𝗻𝗼 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗵 Sara Dehm Michelle Brown

Free: eventbrite.com/e/crime-media-…