Jamelia Morgan
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Prof @NorthwesternLaw , Board Pres @AbolitionistLC , Board Member @RightsBehind . Fac. Dir. @NLawCRDJ . Researching race, disability, policing & prisons (she/her)
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To my colleagues and friends: thank you for the love and support over this past week. It is an honor to do this work and I do not take my responsibility as a scholar and teacher lightly. My team
@NLawCRDJ
is incredible and we wanted to take some time to set the record straight...
You may have heard a couple things about us, but we're here to set the record straight!
A lawsuit accuses Northwestern Law of discriminating against White men in hiring practices. This case makes inaccurate claims about CRDJ and our Faculty Director, Jamelia Morgan. Let's chat.
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“We need not use arrest, conviction and prison as the default response for every broken law,"- former police chief
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Legal scholars, please, before you write anything about "mental illness" please read something (anything) by critical disability scholars about the topic. Your proposals may be intended to helpful but they can also produce very real harms for people with psychiatric disabilities
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Excited to announce that my forthcoming article, Disability’s Fourth Amendment, will be published in the
@ColumLRev
! Looking forward to working with the student editors in the next months.
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We found this in our front yard in Regent Square today. This is America in 2017, folks
#Pittsburgh
@billpeduto
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So thrilled to join
@NorthwesternLaw
! Looking forward to working collaboratively to promote teaching & scholarship around racial & disability justice. I'll miss my wonderful colleagues & students at
@UCILaw
and the incredible community. I'm grateful
We are very excited Prof
@JameliaNMorgan
is joining
@NorthwesternLaw
as Prof of Law with affiliations at
@NUFeinbergmed
,
@IPRatNU
,
@NULegalStudies
& Critical Theory. Prof Morgan, currently
@UCILaw
, analyzes the intersections of race, gender, disability, and crim law & punishment.
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So excited for this new chapter! Thank you to Dean
@HariOsofsky
and
@NorthwesternLaw
for this incredible opportunity! Join us on Nov 16th to learn more:
We are extremely excited to announce the launch the
@NorthwesternLaw
Center for Racial and Disability Justice led by Professor
@JameliaNMorgan
. Please join us for the virtual launch event on Weds, Nov 16 12 pm CT. Register here:
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I am posting this for Antwon Rose Jr, so that you can read his words. And think hard about what it means to live in a country, state, or city where this could be the expectation & lived experience of any child. This is America. And it has been this way for a long time
#AntwonRose
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Thrilled to join the incredible faculty at
@UCILaw
in July 2021!
I’ll miss my wonderful & supportive colleagues & students at UConn Law. Thank you all!
UCI Law is delighted to introduce three new faculty members beginning July 2021:
@AzizaAhmed
,
@JameliaNMorgan
and
@jiseonsong
. These new faculty members are brilliant scholars and accomplished leaders in their areas of expertise. Read the release:
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CT Dept. of Correction rightly reduced use of solitary. Today's bill can make reforms permanent
#StopSolitary
Watch:
Today,
@DavidMcGuireEsq
will testify in support of a bill to strengthen
#solitaryconfinement
reform in Connecticut.
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Excited to share that my article Rethinking Disorderly Conduct will be published next year in
@CalifLRev
! So grateful for all the helpful feedback from so many of you. I'll post the draft on SSRN in a few weeks, but happy to send via email to anyone interested before then.
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Some happy news. Looking forward to participating along with so many incredible junior scholars!
Congratulations to UConn Law Professor
@JameliaNMorgan
whose paper "Rethinking Disorderly Conduct" was accepted into the Harvard/Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum!
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Civil rights groups file lawsuit against Wisc. Dept. of Corrections for abuse & use of solitary
#StopSolitary
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I'd recommend Liat Ben Moshe's Decarcerating Disability. I can also provide more sources for specific areas of research. DM or email me.
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if you are not careful and (importantly) not informed. I see the lack of engagement with disability studies in scholarship related to the criminal legal system but also CRT/race law, LPE, poverty law, etc. We can do better. For starters, for scholars writing about crim legal sys,
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@BooksOnMyShelf
@billpeduto
@notthreefifths
Thanks so much Stephanie. We're looking into cameras. We've also filed a complaint and we're making sure we get media attention on this too
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New
@ACLU
report details how prisoners with disabilities are harmed in
#solitary
#StopSolitary
#DisabilityJustice
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Prisons basically ignore the Americans With Disabilities Act: via
@vicenews
#DisabilitySolidarity
#DisabilityJustice
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Thanks for the shout out
@LeahLitman
! Excited to share my book review of
@prisonculture
's We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, which discusses what insights from abolitionist theory and organizing we can apply to legal analysis
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The Center for Racial and Disability Justice is hiring! Please share and DM with questions:
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Day made! Big thanks to
@womenknowlaw
for the shout out!
Please join us in congratulating Prof.
@JameliaNMorgan
, who has been named
@UCILaw
Professor of the Year!
#WomeninAcademia
#WomenAlsoKnowLaw
#HighlightWomen
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Please follow to learn more!
Hello! We’re
@NorthwesternLaw
’s new Center for Racial and Disability Justice—a center working to further the goal of racial justice and advance an agenda that promotes the human and civil rights of all people with disabilities.
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Incredible panel underway right now! Thank you
@pennlaw
for bringing these brilliant scholars together. Their work is an inspiration & valuable resource in this current movement for both abolition and transformative change!
@DorothyERoberts
@orangebegum
@j_simonson
@monicacbell
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“Solitary confinement compounds health problems for prisoners with disabilities”
#DisabilityJustice
#DeafInPrison
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The Disability Law Section is hosting our second summer (virtual) works-in-progress workshops! The goal of these workshops is to foster community and intellectual engagement among Disability Law scholars in a low-stress and collegial setting.
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Looking forward to the talk and the chance to discuss my new project with a terrific group of scholars! Thanks for the invite,
@yuvrajjoshi
!
📣📣📣
Professor
@JameliaNMorgan
(
@NorthwesternLaw
+ Center for Racial and Disability Justice) will visit
@AllardLaw
’s Faculty Colloquium to present her work on emergency psychiatric holds.
Thursday, March 9, 12:30pm PT, in person and online
Details:
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The first article, Policing Under Disability Law, is forthcoming in
@StanLRev
and discussing how courts conceptualize disability and problems of policing under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Thread on that to come!
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I wrote some thoughts in
@PovertyLaw_Jrnl
celebrating 30 years of the Olmstead decision, and its meaning for both prison reform and abolition:
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The last panel, The Future of the Disability Frame, is happening now at
@PennLRev
's symposium! Looking forward to hearing from Profs.
@labelleverite
@DorfmanDoron
@RuthColker
@RobynMPowell
and with comments from Prof.
@DorothyERoberts
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Huge congrats
@inGerri
! This is fantastic news!!
Pleased to announce that Prof. India Thusi (
@inGerri
), a fabulous scholar and teacher, will be joining
@IUMaurerLaw
, with an affiliated appointment with the
@kinseyinstitute
(
@DrJustinGarcia
). A more formal announcement to come. For now, welcome India to
@IUBloomington
!
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Terrific comments by
@DorfmanDoron
on what he terms "an aspirational future for the Americans with Disabilities Act." His article is forthcoming in the
@SyracuseLRev
special volume on the ADA at 30! I've read a draft and it'a a must read!
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So excited to roll out our new resources in early 2024! Stay tuned...
Guess what? Our new website is now live! We are so excited to announce the official launch of . Be sure to check it out 😊.
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Riding high after a panel with these two incredible advocates! Grateful for the chance to meet in person for the first time in a long time!
#prisonlawcon22
Loved presenting w
@JameliaNMorgan
@AmyFarr
&
@mjschlanger
(on zoom!) at
@NorthwesternLaw
for
#PrisonLawCon22
@prisonlawcon
. We talked using
#Olmstead
to disrupt incarceration, thinking more broadly about reasonable accommodations, & using a
#DisabilityJustice
lens in this work.
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Applying a disability and critical race lens to each these doctrines demonstrates how Fourth Amendment doctrine both fails to adequately protect the constitutional rights of disabled people and reinforces a “normative bodymind” by rendering vulnerable ...
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In the article, I discuss the ways in which disability mediates interactions with law enforcement and how Fourth Amendment doctrine renders disabled people vulnerable to police intrusions and police violence.
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BREAKING: New report finds prisons are making
#HardTimeHarder
for inmates w/ disabilities
#prisonreform
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Deploying police to deal with fireworks is not in line with the movement to end reliance on police as a response to social problems big and small. It is creating a pathway to police violence (to borrow from Prof. Devon Carbado's brilliant description):
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This is an important thread from
@DrSubini
on how racism and ableism have been deployed to blame
#GeorgeFloyd
for his own murder.
Please take note how ableism and racism are being used together to blame
#GeorgeFloyd
for his murder. This is common. We need to know and recognize how ableism and racism work together so we can call this shit out.
#DisCrit
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Big congrats
@NgoziOkidegbe
! So proud of you👊🏾
We're celebrating
@NgoziOkidegbe
who just joined the
@BU_Law
faculty! She is their 1st faculty member to hold a dual appointment with
@BU_CDS
, which shows the importance of scrutinizing the ethical, legal & public policy frameworks AI operates within.
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Thank you to
@LPE_Project
for creating the space for this discussion! Grateful to my co-panelists for their insights
@NicJohnRamos
@Jeharrislaw
and to
@kmtani
for terrific questions!
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I had such a wonderful time! Your students were so thoughtful & engaged. Thanks for the invitation and cultivating the space!
Huge shout-out to
@JameliaNMorgan
for joining my criminal law class today to speak with my students about disorderly conduct statutes and the ways they're employed by police and courts to restrict access to public spaces along racial, gendered, and ableist lines. And...
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Powerful words from
@talilalewis
: In the Fight to Close Rikers, Don't Forget Deaf and Disabled People via
@truthout
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Terrific faculty workshop
@EmoryLaw
today! Such helpful feedback on my new project about the relationship between race and disability. Huge thanks to the faculty and staff for such a warm welcome and generous engagement.
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More specifically, the focus of my critique is on the Terry doctrine, consensual encounters, consent searches, and the objective reasonableness standard under Graham.
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"Cynicism is a refuge for cowards...We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it is won." via
@CoryBooker
#StopSolitaryForKids
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Thank you, friend!
Congratulations to the incredible
@JameliaNMorgan
of
@NorthwesternLaw
for winning
@TheAALS
Deborah L. Rhode award! A moving speech on how the work of late Professor Rhode influenced Professor Morgan’s important work at the intersection of race, gender, disability & criminal law.
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Important work out by Profs. Emma Kaufman and Justin Driver in the
@HarvLRev
. This is a must read for prisoners' rights advocates:
Two years ago, we taught a seminar on constitutional rights in an Indiana prison. Our students helped us appreciate that prison law is broken & built on dangerous myths. Or so we argue in this new piece on The Incoherence of Prison Law.
@nyulaw
@YaleLawSch
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to police surveillance, suspicion, searches, and force persons whose physical and psychological conditions, abilities, appearances, behaviors, and responses do not conform to the dominant norm.
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Really great OpEd from
@DorfmanDoron
&
@Mical_Raz
on how federal disability laws can be used to challenge anti-mask mandates:
In our
@washingtonpost
piece,
@Mical_Raz
& I show how even though a disability accommodation is a remedy which is individualistic in nature, it could be used to protect immunocompromised employees & students during a public health crisis
#CripTheVote
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Such wonderful news for our law school!
Please join us in welcoming Eboni S. Nelson, the next dean of the UConn School of Law.
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Why Many Deaf Prisoners Cant Call Home
@MarshallProj
Shout out to
@talilalewis
&
@behearddc
#DisabilityIncarcerated
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Terrific workshop today with stellar faculty at
@PeppLaw
! Thank you all for the helpful comments and thought-provoking discussion! And special thanks to
@ProfVSchwartz
for the warm welcome!
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The article is part of a few projects focused broadly on policing and disability and the role of law in reinforcing disability-based subordination.
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@DorfmanDoron
kicking off
@TheAALS
Disability Law Section's panel celebrating 50 years of Section 504 of the Rehab Act of 1973!
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What an honor to be in conversation with my inspiring colleagues Profs.
@MehrsaBaradaran
and Bob Soloman! Video will be up soon. I also had the chance to discuss incredible work on reparations by Jordan Brewington (for her
@YaleLJournal
note, see: )
Today (1/14) @ 1:15 p.m. PST: Join UCI Law and the Center on Law, Equality and Race for the virtual MLK Jr. Day Panel Discussion: What Would Reparations Look Like? Ft. Profs.
@MehrsaBaradaran
,
@JameliaNMorgan
, Bob Solomon &
@kaaryngustafs0n
. Details/RSVP:
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Looking forward to being in conversation with these two brilliant scholars and advocates! Join us!
Excited to chat with
@JameliaNMorgan
& Prianka Nair of
@blsdcrc
tomorrow, two people whose work has helped to inform my own. Register at the link below. 👇🏾
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"People who have consistently been denied protection under the law desperately want the law to live up to its promises. There are ways to support families calling for arrests without legitimizing the system, including by meeting material needs, providing safety for families and
We Want More Justice For Breonna Taylor Than The System That Killed Her Can Deliver
via
@ESSENCE
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If you're interested in learning more about abolitionist leadership, thinking, and organizing, I'd highly recommend that you follow
@saleemholbrook
. I've learned so much from him over the years and credit him with truly shaping my views abolition and my analysis.
Memo To Criminal Justice Reform Activists: If you introduce/support legislation that ends one carceral component but adds two other carceral components. It's not a win, or a draw. You took one step forward, then two steps back. Know when its time to walk away from the table.
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New lawsuit filed against the Palm Beach County Jail on behalf of children kept in solitary confinement. The extensive stories of mistreatment and abuse are just shocking:
#STOPSolitary
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Texas prisons take hit from Harvey, complaints of water, sewage problems surface via
@houstonchron
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Looking forward to this event tomorrow! Grateful to my colleagues, students, alumni, & NW Law community for the support of this work!
TOMORROW Weds Nov. 16, 12 pm CT: We are extremely excited to announce the launch the
@NorthwesternLaw
Center for Racial and Disability Justice led by Professor
@JameliaNMorgan
. Please join us:
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Excited to join this terrific team of scholars and fellows! Learn more about the Walkout! Lab for Youth Justice below. Thank you
@DrSubini
for your vision and inspiration!
Check this beautiful write up about the new Walkout! Lab for Youth Justice Thanks to brilliant fellows
@JameliaNMorgan
@francis_pearman
@YoungBlackScho1
@pansas18
@annieleofficial
@jtknoxroxs
@GregPrieto
formerly incarcerated youth & co-director
@rrbanks
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Powerful piece by
@talilalewis
&
@notthreefifths
on how the ongoing prison strike furthers the movement for
#DisabilityJustice
The piece goes beyond the traditional
#disabilityrights
framework and towards transformative change through an abolitionist lens
The Prison Strike Challenges Ableism and Defends Disability Rights
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Cait wait! Stayed tuned...
Cooking up something exciting today w/
@RabiaBelt
@DorfmanDoron
@Jeharrislaw
@JameliaNMorgan
&
@j_e_brandt
for
@LPE_Project
!... Stay tuned for some new
@LPEblog
posts on disability, law & political economy.
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Another day, another call to
@AmericanAir
regarding their terrible (and discriminatory) treatment of passengers with disabilities (this time, my father).
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Looking forward to joining this terrific group of scholars:
REGISTER TODAY for our OK Law Review Symposium: Ending Mass Incarceration on February 4 from 10 am - 4:30 pm CT via Zoom.
We will have some of the top legal minds across the country breaking this topic down into three panels.
➡️
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@abfettig
@billpeduto
@notthreefifths
Thank you so much for the support, Amy! We agree and we are not going to go away quietly.
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No Way to Call Home: Incarcerated Deaf People Are Locked in a Prison Inside a Prison via
@truthout
#DeafInPrison
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Just finished an excellent essay by
@Jeharrislaw
that examines the current pandemic through a disability lens.
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The Scanner: Female jail inmates sue Alameda County over right to sleep
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Finished my last faculty workshop of the semester at
@uga
law! Thanks to the faculty for thoughtful questions &
@zohraraheem
for being such a generous host!
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I loved this paper the first time I read it, and can't wait to see this latest draft. Big congrats on publishing, India!
Happy to share that my article"Reality Porn" is officially out in NYU Law Rev. It's the first in a series of papers that focus on sex, technology, & the Constitution. I'm so grateful to the editors
@nyulawreview
4 superb editing. You can download it here: .
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Our AALS section is theeee best! Just so grateful for the support of this group with my scholarship over the years🙏
@DorfmanDoron
Thank you for your work in bringing this all together!
Had a wonderful
@TheAALS
Section on Disability Law WIP workshop today! Love our supportive community:
@JameliaNMorgan
@Mark_C_Weber
@nicolebporter
@JessicaRGunder
@RuthColker
@dandrashu
@KatAMacfarlane
@RobynMPowell
@HazardLorr
@RabiaBelt
@ProfShirleyLin
Blake Reid Adrian Alvarez
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This is a treasure! Thank you
@AimiHamraie
for sharing. I'm planning to incorporate some of these sources into my Critical Race Theory, Criminal Law, Disability Law, and Beyond Crim Justice/Abolition syllabi.
Announcing the first draft of
#EugenicsSyllabus
! Please consider teaching about eugenics and its connections to the COVID-19 pandemic in your courses this fall. This crowdsourced syllabus includes over 100 primary and secondary sources, and creative works.
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Judge: Philly man in solitary for 24 years deserves a chance at general population via
@phillydotcom
#STOPSolitary
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If
@NAACP
can offer any assistance, please let me know
We found this in our front yard in Regent Square today. This is America in 2017, folks
#Pittsburgh
@billpeduto
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Five months in and I'm still enjoying all the webinars. Keep 'em coming! Sincerely, me (still sheltering in place).
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Been looking forward to this for months and it's happening soon. Join us on 2/25!
Day 2 kicks off w/ "the disability frame" in the present (Panel 3):
@JameliaNMorgan
@katie_eyer
@DwyerReynolds
show how the concept of disability matters to incarceration/criminal law, civil rights/equality law, & remedying environmental harms; comment by
@ProfOsseiOwusu
. (8/x)
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We're so excited to welcome Kate Caldwell (
@cycleberry
) to our team!
"I am excited about doing research that captures the lived experience and needs of marginalized communities and getting that research into the hands of decision-makers."
Meet Kate Caldwell (
@cycleberry
),
@NLawCRDJ
's new director of research and policy:
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This project (written during the depths of the pandemic) would not have been written without the support of many incredible scholars and colleagues. I am so grateful for the helpful feedback, criticism, and encouragement.
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Looking forward to this discussion!
Our Police Reform Discussion Series continues next Friday, April 2nd! Join us for a discussion on "Rethinking Disorderly Conduct" with
@JameliaNMorgan
of
@UConnLaw
.
More info ➡️
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@dissolidarity
A1. People with disabilities are routinely placed into solitary confinement for disability-related behaviors. Once in solitary, they are often denied access to programs that provide them the opportunity to get out of solitary.
#DisabilitySolidarity
#PrisonStrike
#StopSolitary
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Feds open civil rights investigation into South Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice via
@postandcourier
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Big news out of CT
#cjreform
BIG news: HB 6921 passed out of committee!
As the first state to introduce this kind of legislation, Connecticut has a chance to show millions of justice-impacted people nationwide that there is hope for a better future.
Act NOW to support this bill:
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Voices From NYC's Most Notorious Jail: Fmr Prisoners Speak Out About Abuse @ Rikers via
@truthout
#CloseRikers
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@millerej_11
Yes! So many cases involve disability but do not engage with disability as a lens for analysis. I am finishing up a draft discussing disability & policing (focus on Fourth Amendment) & I look at disability and criminalization in another paper looking at disability and ...
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Thank you for the support! Shout out to
@DrSubini
who developed DisCrit and whose work inspires me!
How can dis/ability critical race studies further our understanding of American law?
@UConnLaw
Prof.
@JameliaNMorgan
breaks it down in her forthcoming article: Toward a DisCrit Approach to American Law.
#WOCKnowLaw
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On my block, when the fireworks became too loud we went out and spoke to the kids and we haven't had a problem this week since. Instead of deploying law enforcement, what alternatives to police do we have here in Hartford? Community volunteers, counselors?
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Public Defender Seeks Immediate Release for People in Jail at Heightened Risk of Coronavirus via
@sfdefender
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Terrific workshop this morning at
@OSU_Law
! Thank you for being such terrific hosts!
What a great workshop at
@OSU_Law
today!
Huge thanks to
@UCILaw
's
@JameliaNMorgan
,
@CardozoLaw
's
@NgoziOkidegbe
&
@IUMaurer
's
@inGerri
for joining us & sharing their work with us!
To read their work check out the links below 👇👇
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@davidminpdx
Thanks for the support, David. I'm grateful. We are not going to go away quietly. This act is not the first and won't be the last.
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@millerej_11
Quality of life policing. I rely on the work of incredible critical disability scholars like Liat Ben-Moshe,
@DorfmanDoron
, Rabia Belt,
@DrSubini
(DisCrit), and disability justice innovators Patty Berne,
@talilalewis
@notthreefifths
@autistichoya
@kriphopnation
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Draft of forthcoming chapter, Toward a DisCrit Approach to American Law, is posted on SSRN:
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