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By Rahsaan Thomas Accountability. For a person serving a life sentence in California, you must take accountability for your crimes. If you don’t take accountability, don’t expect the parole board to give you a date. While the board appreciates hearing… Continue Reading →

By Bernard E. Harcourt We live in a punitive society—to borrow a term coined by Michel Foucault in his 1973 lectures at the Collège de France, La Société punitive.[1] With over two million men, women, and children, predominantly of color,… Continue Reading →

By Bernard E. Harcourt What does it mean for an institution like the prison, founded on the very notion of reforming the delinquent, to constantly be defective, deficient, or deviant itself, and constantly in need of reform? How should we… Continue Reading →