Prioritizing relationship-building over reactivity, and solidarity over silence, is how abolitionist writer and activist Kay Whitlock suggests we all confront the rising violence and authoritarianism in the days and years ahead.

RT @himmoderator: Thanks to Sonali Chakravarti @Wesleyan I will have some concrete guidance for my first call to jury duty later this month.

This week's newsletter: Becoming decarceral jurors

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Erik Maloney, an incarcerated psychology researcher, has theorized that many men in prison have had their minds "imprisoned" long before their incarceration. Here are some of his findings from his case studies.

Joe Biden made history when he commuted the sentences of just about everyone on federal death row. But he lost the moral argument against the death penalty when he denied mercy to some, writes Carol Steiker.

For anyone committed to ending the scope and scale of mass incarceration, the jury system is worth serving in—and preserving, writes Sonali Chakravarti. Resisting over-punishment and unjust punishment by the state has always been its central purpose.

This week's newsletter: All of us or none

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RT @APetrigh: Grateful to the folks at inquest for letting me share some thoughts about client counseling.

RT @BU_Law: #BULawProf @APetrigh writes for @_inquest_ on the ways defense lawyers can not only counsel their clients on an individual crim…

How might a defense lawyer counsel her client not just about an individual criminal case, but about the broader oppression of our system of mass incarceration? Former public defender @APetrigh of @BU_Law offers insights.

Anti-detention activists, and the broader migrant justice movement, aren't just concerned with keeping people from deportation. Their aim is to put an end to the harms of the entire punishment industry, leaving no one behind, writes Monisha Das Gupta.

This week's newsletter: Stripped of dignity

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In a deeply personal essay, Corey Devon Arthur writes about the routinized violence of prison strip searches—a form of state aggression that robs incarcerated men of their health, sexuality, and so much more. Published in partnership with @EmpowermentAve.

RT @BNofil: The Migrant's Jail is excerpted in @_inquest_ today! It's about how we write the history of migrant incarceration in local jail…

For over a century, jails have been central to the U.S. project of detaining and deporting immigrants by the thousands. These sites cannot be ignored as the nation strives to make sense of the current political moment, writes historian @BNofil.

RT @JOlderma: I wrote a new piece for The Inquest in which I make the case for ending pretrial incarceration. Pretrial incarceration isn’…

RT @svdebug: “Its purpose is to punish. The harm that I witnessed is not just some unfortunate by-product of our pretrial system. The harm…