📢 New Workshop
Jonathan Simon joins us from @UCBerkeley to talk about why mass incarceration within the US carceral state has been so resilient.
🗓️ Wed 18 Oct 4pm BST
👉Register https://t.co/EYNBjp3OP4
📍 Online
@JonathanSimon59
I was honored to be in conversation with Geoff Ward, @jonubian & @oJaison about the true origins of the family policing system—in anti-Black racism, white supremacy & saviorism, not children’s welfare.
Botero’s searing torture series exhibited not far from the Dean’s office at Berkeley Law is a daily rebuke to those of us who teach law to address the violence at it’s core. May his memory be for blessing https://t.co/8IvHJgN1Bl
Jonathan Simon (@JonathanSimon59), a professor of criminal justice at Berkeley Law, said incarcerating people over minor property crimes makes little sense. "Jail does real harm and makes it more likely the person will be arrested again," Simon said. https://t.co/USVuSvgyZx
This is a national story, not just something that happens in Baltimore. The widespread confiscation of gunshot victims' property, in traumatizing/dehumanizing ways, beyond needed evidence & near impossible to get back. For many reasons, this must change:
https://t.co/3xF3ivrW2C
a stunning essay from the great @adamsimonx: about its topic but also, like e.g. @mangiotto's magnificent writing, a giddy synthesis that pulls in a good chunk of surrounding universe. is to its subject maybe a bit as burden of dreams is to fitzcarraldo... https://t.co/5exX4CwBam
🚨 RED ALERT! The videos from LPE Project & LPE@HLS spring conference, “LPE: Labor, Social Control, and Counterpower,” are now available on our website!!!
You can watch all 13 sessions at your leisure! 🧵
I am humbled and thrilled to be joining the incredible faculty @UCBerkeleyLaw as a Law Prof and joining @BerkeleyLawBCLT as co-director.
I will forever be grateful for the 15 years I spent @santaclaralaw and indebted to my students and colleagues there.
Me on opposition to Julie Su’s nomination: “It’s the companies and sectors that have organized themselves as non-employers that are worried about being hit with minimum wage and overtime violations,” that most strongly oppose her. https://t.co/9majV5de1s
Jonathan Simon @JonathanSimon59, Punishment as Rights Violation https://t.co/wnJ3bIoWGK reviewing Kate Weisburd, Rights Violation as Punishment, 111 Cal. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2023).
... And also in journal articles like this one -- which also starts with the @JonathanSimon59 quote that kicks off the podcast (available on request): https://t.co/9bPC830LOf