Again flagging some of many notable recent Inquest essays

I have lately been making it a quarterly habit of highlighted essays from Inquest, “a decarceral brainstorm,” and so here is the latest installment of just some recent pieces on an array of topics that sentencing fans may want to check out:

It has been a couple of months since I highlighted essays from Inquest, “a decarceral brainstorm,” and so here is coverage of just some of its newer pieces on an array of topics that sentencing fans may want to check out:

By Jennifer Oliva, “Everything Old Is New Again: Policymakers claim to have turned away from the “old” war on drugs—but everything about their “new” approach is still focused on punishment and surveillance.”

By Robin Bernstein and Nicole R. Fleetwood, “The Profit Motive: A recent book unveils the shockingly long history of for-profit prisons — and the equally long history of incarcerated people demanding compensation for their exploited labor.”

By Bobbi Cobaugh, “No Exit: When parole boards are allowed to give the original crime more weight than proof of change, they become an absurdist theater of foregone conclusions.” 

By Bianca Tylek and Worth Rises, “Not Fit for Human Consumption: Prisons serve bad, inadequate food as a way to cut costs. Providing this inhumane service is now a profitable sector of Wall Street.”

By Meera Navlakha, “Never Too Old to Start Over: When released, older incarcerated people have incredibly low recidivism rates — yet are still routinely denied parole and clemency. Organizers in New York are trying to change that.”