The essays in this section of the website focus on the legal and political history of policing, prisons, and the criminal justice system. They explore the history of slave patrols, Japanese internment, public defenders, the “war on drugs” and sentencing laws, and prisoner rights movements.
D. Buskett, “Slave Patrols: The Manifestations of Fear in America” – read the essay.
S. Gill, “Japanese Internment: Redress” – read the essay.
M. Aguilar, “Indigent Defendants and the Crisis in Public Defense” – read the essay.
Cougar Kime, “Cocaine and Color: The Prison Line” – read the essay.
Kayla Banks, “The Power and Resilience in Prisoner Activism and Self-Advocacy” – read the essay.
Featured Image: Attica Correctional Facility in New York, site of a prison uprising in 1971. Source Image: Jayu from Harrisburg, PA, U.S.A. – Attica, New York (Correctional Facility), CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6239913
