Huge congrats to my colleague @JCSchwartzProf on this well-deserved recognition of her preeminent work.

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Colorado today became the first state in U.S. history to require county jails to set up in-person voting stations to ensure people behind bars can vote. boltsmag.org/colorado-votin…

Major update in The Appeal's FOIA lawsuit seeking to compel the federal Department of Justice to release records on in-custody deaths in prisons, jails, and police custody. 🧵

1/10 Southern Poverty Law Center has just laid off 80+ of the most talented advocates I've known & entirely eliminated its immigrant justice and Teaching for Justice programs. SPLC leadership is all about spin, and they'll put a spin on this. But make no mistake, this is a win for the right wing.

For >3 years, LASD secretly investigated — & urged the Cal AG to prosecute — an Los Angeles Times reporter who wrote about a leaked list of problem deputies. They claimed her 1A-protected reporting was actually a crime. My latest, with Alene Tchekmedyian: latimes.com/california/sto…

This is deep, important, thoughtful reporting on the staggering mortality rate in Maricopa County’s jails—and the failures of transparency that concealed it—from Jimmy Jenkins. Grateful to have had the opportunity to weigh in alongside Andrea Armstrong and @jaydaronson.

When I presented our findings to the state agency in charge of collecting in-custody death statistics, they said "Those numbers can't be right. If there were that many deaths in the jails, it would be a huge news story." "It's about to be," I replied. x.com/JimmyJenkins/s…

Here for the campaign ad that’s just a bunch of his former students talking about how much they loved Mr. Walz’s social studies class.

I love the way city and state comptrollers are stepping up to stop the prison industry's gross abuse of our communities. Everyone has a role to play.

I hope Democratic Party will recognize before it's too late that it's necessary and important for a Palestinian-American voice to be platformed and heard at the convention.

This was the “hack” that incarcerated people used to create the $1M they spent on the corporation’s own predatorily priced services. It would be a comedy, if Securus wasn’t now blocking people from communicating with their families until they “repay” them. You can’t make this up.

NEW: Major structural deficiencies at Men's Central Jail could turn the decaying building into a deathtrap in the next earthquake. The county has known about this since at least 2006, and done none of the seismic retrofitting needed to fix it. latimes.com/california/sto…

Sheriffs are so critical. They oversee the plague of jail deaths. They decide how to partner with ICE. They're part of all sorts of far-right networks. Jessica Pishko has been watching it all for years—and she's publishing a new book on sheriffs... TODAY: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/707263/t…

NC floods were caused by the French Broad River flooding from hurricane rains. Immediately next to the river in the flood zone map is Craggy Correctional, a medium security prison with 408 inmates. No news about them. Does anyone know what is going on inside?

The Appeal is seeking information on how Hurricane Helene is affecting incarcerated people and their loved ones. Please DM or email us at [email protected] if you're aware of imminent problems at jails or prisons in areas affected by the storm.

“In honor of JD Vance & Usha Vance. YLS Class of 2013 stands against scapegoating & demagoguery drawn straight from the playbooks of fascism. With love & a prayer that JD and Usha find the moral strength to reverse the course of their lives.” abovethelaw.com/2024/10/jd-van…

NEW: My cheat sheet to Tuesday features more than 500 races up and down the ballot. Now we have it in PDF, printable form: Save it, print it, give it to your kids to color the electoral college, & use it your worksheet on Tuesday night. Find it here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-b…

Recently joined a house-swapping app and have stayed in some truly gorgeous places, including a home up in the Berkeley Hills with stunning views of the Bay. Like AirBNB except exchange credits earned by hosting rather than money. To try for five nights: livekindred.com/?invite_code=a…