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Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Nicole Fleetwood’s “Marking Time”
01 Jul 2020
Incarcerated activists have so many tools and skills to teach about resisting brutal regimes.
Chris Hedges
My Student Comes Home from Prison
01 Jul 2020
In 1990, Lawrence Bell was 14, orphaned and living in an abandoned house when three Camden cops pressured him to sign a confession of murder.
Rhondda Robinson Thomas
BAR Book Forum: Symposium on Sarah Haley’s "No Mercy Here"
27 May 2020
In white patriarchy-ruled South Carolina at the turn of the 20th century, manhood sometimes created temporary yet tenuous bonds between Black and white men.
Michelle Chen
Prisons Are Using the Pandemic to Impose Lockdowns
20 May 2020
More than 300,000 people in prisons or jails are under “full or partial lockdown” in response to the pandemic.
Jamiles Lartey
New York Tried to Get Rid of Bail. Then the Backlash Came
13 May 2020
The no-bail movement was on a roll from Vermont and New Jersey to Alaska and Georgia – and then the lock ‘em up mob struck back.
Sarah Lustbader
US Prisons Are Vectors of Disease
06 May 2020
The penal system remains a source of diseases that spread among prisoners at rates far exceeding those in the communities from which they came.
Victoria Law
As Coronavirus Spreads Through Prisons, States Are Failing Incarcerated People
29 Apr 2020
Although prisons have become hot spots of the pandemic, most of the penal overseers have taken only token measures, if any, to evacuate inmates.
Human Outbreak Response
Humanity Not Cages: Demanding a Just and Humane Response to Outbreak
25 Mar 2020
With 2.3 million people in the United States in prison or jail on any given day, an outbreak in these facilities poses a threat to the entire country.
Noelle Hanrahan
Prisoners and Coronavirus
18 Mar 2020
Prisoners and guards are at much greater risk than the general population. “Prison health care systems are not prepared to deal with this epidemic.”
Linn Washington Jr
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Smacks Abu-Jamal Again
04 Mar 2020
The Justices used extraordinary authority to delay Mumia’s appeal of his murder conviction.