🚨Twitter storm🚨 Join the CheckTheSheriffLA coalition for a twitter storm to demand accountability of the LA County Sheriff’s Department! We need more civilian oversight & control over LA County Sheriffs #CheckTheSheriff Help us get the word out! Toolkit here: bit.ly/3wxFltE

Check out Sharon Dolovich's latest op-ed in Los Angeles Times: "A new bill would model California prison reform on Norway’s success. Here’s why it misses the mark" latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Exciting news!! You can now preorder your copy of Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable, authored by the incredible JCSchwartzProf. Congratulations Professor Schwartz!

New reporting on the City of Susanville’s lawsuit to keep a decrepit prison full, based on the city's financial need for prisoners: latimes.com/california/sto…

I’m so delighted to be joining the UCLA School of Law faculty alongside these extraordinary colleagues.

Congratulations to our Acting Director Aaron Littman / aaronlittman.bsky.social on his appointment as Assistant Professor!

A full house at the UCLAW Incarcerated Persons Correspondence Project Letter Writing Marathon Today!

Check out our new toolkit on addressing legal issues in youth diversion, authored by Youth Justice Policy Lead Leah Zeidler-Ordaz (@lgomyeggo)! 🐦 bit.ly/YouthDiversion…

#ICYMI: On Tuesday, Professor Andrea Armstrong testified on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Hearing about the Death in Custody Reporting Act, and the importance of collecting data on deaths in jails and prisons.

UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project is ALSO hiring a full-time, remote research director to lead our work on carceral mortality. We seek someone with expertise in quantitative public health methodology, comfort with messy data, and interest in studying and addressing the health impacts of prison.

I could not be more delighted to be embarking on a partnership between UCLA School of Law’s Prisoners’ Rights Clinic and MacArthur Justice Center’s Supreme Court and Appellate Program! law.ucla.edu/news/ucla-law-…

The UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project Oral History Project has just posted 25 interviews with litigators and other advocates about their experiences working to protect incarcerated people during the pandemic. An incredible trove of hard-earned wisdom: uclacovidbehindbars.org/oral-history-p…

Huge thanks to the many on our team who coordinated, conducted, and transcribed these interviews, and especially to the interviewees themselves for sharing their experiences so thoughtfully.

To read more about the effort: uclacovidbehindbars.org/oral-history-b…

📢📢CALL-ing ALL PERFORMERS!!📢📢 CALL Festival UCLA is looking for dancers, singers, poets, and all other performers to share their talents at our festival on Friday night, April 15! For more information & to apply, check out bit.ly/CALLPerformers… - due Fri, Feb 27.

The 2nd California System-Involved Bar Association conference happening at UCLA School of Law today! Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law Sharon Dolovich

Perspectives from Current Law Students Panel going on today at the California System Involved Bar Association conference at UCLA School of Law Sharon Dolovich James Binnall Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law

Full house at the California System Involved Bar Association (csiba.org) 2nd convening at UCLA School of Law! James Binnall Sharon Dolovich Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law

“Navigating the State Bar” panel at the California System Involved Bar Association conference at UCLA School of Law James Binnall Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law Sharon Dolovich

The @VisitingRoomPr at the CALL Festival UCLA Festival! Criminal Justice Program at UCLA School of Law UCLA School of Law