Prisons’ “dual role of jailer and caregiver” illustrates perfectly the deadliness of care under racial capitalism and carceral regimes.

Thank you to all who convened for this weekend’s conference celebrating the legacy of W. E.B. Du Bois. It was a weekend of powerful keynotes and plenaries, exemplary student/faculty presentations and community.

Friends in Providence and Brown University, take advantage of this wonderful exchange tomorrow at the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice! You can register using the QRM code .

I have been sitting on this news 🤫 AND now we can celebrate this BIG win for Sociology@Brown !
Welcome Dr. Courtney Boen, PhD, MPH 🙌 So happy to have you as a colleague.

.Brown University & Providence folks: There is still time to register for this book event with melanie newport 💥This book is a must-read for Chicago journalists & punishment scholars interested in the Cook County Jail and it’s shaping of mass Incarceration.

The absolutely absurd response at Dartmouth 🌲 as documented by the student newspaper.

thedartmouth.com/article/2024/0…

“The Pulitzer Prize Board would like to recognize the tireless efforts of student journalists across our nation’s college campuses, who are covering protests and unrest in the face of great personal and academic risk.”

Any university that allows snipers on the roof of campus buildings in response to a nonviolent student protest is not place of higher learning.

Many wrongly convicted people have channeled their emotions into poetry. During #NationalPoetryMonth , we're proud to share these powerful poems from our clients and exonerees. bit.ly/4ak0VDy

Researchers have found that facial recognition AI has concerning failure rates when handling images of Black Americans, especially Black women, either failing to identify a person at all or making an inaccurate match. bit.ly/3xsNeDM

I am very much looking forward to this discussion of my book on April 29. If you are around, join the conversation. Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s Brown University Center for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Invisible(HU)man

Help us in wishing South Side native Arionne (Are-REE-ahn) Nettles a happy publishing day! Her debut book, ‘We Are The Culture,’ is officially out and in stores today.

Read Tonia Hill's write-up on the author: thetriibe.com/2024/02/south-…

#Chicago #ArionneNettles #Chicago Authors

For the first time since pollsters began asking the question, more Americans believe that the death penalty is applied unfairly than fairly. Unsurprisingly, public opposition to the death penalty is also at near all-time high. bit.ly/43S8j6y

A question for my social scientists out there - are there any studies suggesting that police traffic stops reduce crime? Or anything on their benefits?

Also, if you aren't already, follow Pascal for his great data-driven writing on this topic.

It's important to remember that wards in high crime neighborhoods are incredibly gerrymandered. Each alder here is representing fragments of numerous communities. Important to bear in mind before conflating wards with 'communities.'

Toforest Johnson, who has consistently maintained his innocence, was sentenced to death in 1998 and has been on death row for more than a quarter-century, despite no physical evidence or eyewitness testimony connecting him to the crime scene. bit.ly/3VzCSvN

Any move away from the current #RestorativeJustice Community Court (RJCC) model to a model focused on drug charges or cases dealing with veterans/mental health issues would be a misdirected waste of resources. 1/🧵

The National Registry of Exonerations (Natl. Registry of Exonerations) recorded 153 exonerations last year, and nearly 84% were people of color, while the most frequent factor in their wrongful conviction was official misconduct. bit.ly/3U2lgHK

Advocates say Connecticut must reckon with history of wrongful convictions ctpublic.org/news/investiga…

“Sister Sister Helen Prejean was a humble nun from Louisiana who embarked on a controversial battle that would change the world. Now 84 years old, Sister Helen is currently fighting to stop the execution of [Richard Glossip] in Oklahoma.” bit.ly/3TSY12F