Week in review: We offer our biannual round-up of forthcoming LPE scholarship, and Premal Dharia concludes our symposium on Radical Acts of Justice.

Plus, LPE events, reading groups, and new articles in the 🧵👇

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Grateful to LPE Blog for the opportunity to share these thoughts and to continue urging everyone to read Jocelyn Simonson's book, Radical Acts of Justice!

Featuring works by Felicia Arriaga, Dan Berger, Orisanmi Burton, Puff the Magic Hater, NYC Tw*tterati, M.E. O'Brien, Andrea Ritchie also @dreanyc123.bsky.social, Vincent Schiraldi, Jocelyn Simonson, and Celeste Winston, our annual list of books pushed us to imagine a future without mass incarceration.

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Next Thursday in Boston, we'll be hosting an in-person, daylong symposium with The Visiting Room Project—hearing from directly impacted people how ending life without parole sentences is part of the broader struggle against mass incarceration.

To learn more: inquest.org/the-visiting-r…

'Local nonprofits will plant tens of thousands of trees across the D.C. area in Black and brown neighborhoods that currently lack tree canopy. It’s an effort to promote ‘tree equity‘ — making sure the many benefits of trees reach everyone.'

let's gooo

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'Americans became very punitive...on a cultural and moral basis. In this context, the rationalist appeal to 'what works' is like bringing a pool noodle to a shootout.' jon ben-menachem on 'evidence-based' approaches to decarceration in Inquest: inquest.org/our-evidence-b…

Feeling a bit emotional as Inquest rounds out its second year. Thank you to everyone who has contributed & read & shared.

Check out our end-of-summer reading list showcasing only some of the many wonderful pieces we've been lucky to publish this year: inquest.org/our-end-of-sum…

So thrilled about this roundtable in Inquest centered on Jocelyn Simonson's new book, Radical Acts of Justice. The roundtable kicks off today with an essay from the author herself: inquest.org/radicalized-in….

Community violence intervention, a non-carceral approach to preventing gun violence, is being embraced by policymakers at all levels.

But one group in Chicago is choosing the route of harm reduction, embracing young people as it finds them—guns and all. inquest.org/on-both-sides-…

Watch THE RECALL: REFRAMED for free! Together The Emancipator, Lux Magazine, and Inquest are publishing a series of articles about the film to drive conversation around responses to sexual violence that don’t perpetuate the harms of mass incarceration. youtube.com/watch?v=M9PnKa…

'Part of what makes this state repression so troubling is that it is so explicit: If you take care of each other, we will come for you.'

Important read from Jocelyn Simonson about what is happening in Atlanta with Atlanta Solidarity Fund – and about the power of collective care & solidarity.

So many workers, on both sides of the prison wall, labor under threat of state violence. This reality, Noah Zatz contends, opens up a path to more robust, far-reaching worker solidarity.

The final entry in our series on carceral labor with LPE Blog.

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Fascinating piece in Inquest on labor & union organizing among formerly incarcerated people in New York: inquest.org/building-worke…

A new research project from Stephen Wilson, m, Jacqueline G, and lydia villaronga seeks to understand incarcerated people's relationship to work — and thus build a path toward lasting freedom.

The latest in our series on carceral labor with LPE Blog.

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The entire series so far, as well as future installments, can be found here: inquest.org/captive-labor/

Excited about this collaboration!