I just can’t believe this is my life, begging my employer not to have my students attacked by police.

Also odd:
-She had to pay $50k bond on offenses that the bail schedule says are $0 bail
-AG asked for a warrant (instead of summons) on nonviolent offense, ensuring she'd be booked + have mugshot taken
-Her lawyer still hasn't been told what records she's accused of taking

There is no such thing as a “staff shortage.” The right term is “over incarceration.”

“Solitary confinement literally causes the brain to shrink, and it induces a broad range of severe harms, up to and including psychosis and suicide'

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Is every cop in Chicago on LSD this afternoon. Honor guard!

Also if I was sent to cover this I'd be willing to get arrested for doing my job. But they won't arrest you b/c that'll be a PR crisis. They'll just probably blackball you to never have access to official interviews with NU bosses again. Is that what journos are afraid of losing?

Police don't simply enforce the law. Police enforce only some laws, against some people, in some neighborhoods.

The wave of camp- or occupation-style pro-Palestinian student protests on college campuses across America didn't begin at Columbia University in New York City on April 18, 2024. It began 23 days before with a dramatic 21-hour sit-in protest at Vanderbilt College in Tennessee on

and that is why I’m hoping everyone will read this lil book ucpress.edu/book/978052029…

The state prison in Pine Bluff, Arkansas has rejected an entire package of our books because the mailroom decided that 'inmates cannot have art books' (Policy determination conveyed via this purple post-it note affixed by the prison to our original invoice and mailed back to us)

one of my guiding questions for this school year has been “what does it look like to make abolition where you are?” I am seeing that organized faculty asking “what are the police doing here?” is a very good place to start.

1 / Feeling so much gratitude for everyone who came out to our talk 'Learning Survivor Support from Sex Workers'! We met some powerful campus and community organizers **and some are community members in need of immediate support** like Sul*💜

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Resisting Arrest and Assault on a Police Officer is code for I'm ruining your life because you offended me

A trip that started with smiles ended in stunned silence as we tried to process the reality of our country’s great experiment of mass incarceration, and the relentless cruelty that has resulted - as every legal education should. (5/6)

Well, during my 47 years in Angola, much of it as an inmate Counsel, I used to say that every new inmate counsel should be REQUIRED to spend 2 years working the tiers at Camp J. Same thing…throw ‘em in the fire.🔥 make ‘em want to burn, and know what it is to burn. IYKYK.

You keep finding such interesting people!

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honestly I’m embarrassed to have been so naive but this wasn’t the presidency where I thought they’d be arresting professors for protesting

Missouri prison agency to pay $60K for Sunshine Law violations over inmate death records spectrumlocalnews.com/mo/st-louis/ne…

Let the record show that the most controversial piece of advice from the office training I gave yesterday on legal writing was “cut almost all the dates.”