Who actually bears the burden when we demand harsher punishment for a privileged White defendant? “The Recall: Reframed” asks you to take another look at the Brock Turner case and the unintended consequences of a well-intentioned movement. 🧵youtube.com/watch?v=M9PnKa…

THE RECALL: REFRAMED is a short film The Emancipator on the recalling of the judge who issued the lesser jail sentence to Stanford swimmer Brock Turner for sexual assault. It “explores the unintended consequences of equating incarceration with justice.” bostonglobe.com/2023/06/06/opi…

Sonya Shah, founder of the Ahimsa Collective, has spent the last 20 years flipping the paradigm of crime and punishment to one of harm and accountability through the practice of restorative justice. Read the conversation here: bostonglobe.com/2023/06/13/opi…

You may be perpetuating carceral feminism without realizing, so let’s talk about it: Here’s what Aya Gruber had to say in The Emancipator. 🧵 bostonglobe.com/2023/06/27/opi…

Excited to announce our expert panel for our Virtual Annual Membership Meeting on September 8th. Join LaDoris Hazzard Cordell Rebecca Richman Cohen , Yolanda Edrington and Aishah Shahidah Simmons to discuss punishment, accountability, and much more. Register here: tinyurl.com/2p8b27r5

Incredibly thoughtful essay on @recallreframed by Ieshaah Murphy on Inquest "A new film reminds us that caring about survivors means working to prevent and respond to all violence—including carceral violence." inquest.org/reframing-our-…

"Caring about all survivors means working to dismantle the carceral system and replace it with real solutions to preventing and responding to all violence," writes Ieshaah Murphy of UDC Law in a film review of 'The Recall: Reframed.' inquest.org/reframing-our-…

Beautiful reporting on hard questions around our responses to violence -- and the promise of restorative justice The Emancipator bostonglobe.com/2023/09/19/opi…

One is one of the bravest, most beautiful, most anguishing films I have ever seen. Serious content warnings: it is about reproductive injustice and it is visceral. Made by the brilliant eliza capai nytimes.com/2023/09/26/opi…

America locks up more people than any other country in the world. When all agency is taken away, sometimes the only freedom prisoners have left is found in the pages of a book. This week, three incarcerated writers help us understand the urgency of fighting book bans in prisons.

"Censorship is made worse by implementing it more strictly, writes Tomas Keen, a 2023 PEN America Prison Writing Award winner, in Boston Globe's The Emancipator. "Bans work to further ostracize incarcerated people from society." bostonglobe.com/2023/10/23/opi…

🧵"Reading Between the Bars: An In-Depth Look at Prison Censorship"—a report released today by PEN America—presents a comprehensive look at the tactics used by prisons to deny reading materials to incarcerated people. Learn more: pen.org/press-release/… #ReadingBetweenTheBars

“What do you mean they rejected a book on anti-racism?” Tomas Keen asks, checking his stride. “More and more, I’ve seen prisons in my state of Washington banning books on racism, claiming they promote racism and lead to violence.”🧵

Amy Schumer "Censorship is made worse by implementing it more strictly,” writes Tomas Keen, a 2023 PEN America Prison Writing Award winner, in The Emancipator. "Bans work to further ostracize incarcerated people from society." bostonglobe.com/2023/10/23/opi… #PrisonBannedBooksWeek (13/x)

Since being incarcerated 15 years ago, Daniel Pirkel won Honorable Mention in the 2022 PEN America Prison Writing Contest for his essay, “The Unintended Consequences of Retributive Justice,” but neither he nor his inmates can read it.

From Director Rebecca Richman Cohen: THE RECALL: REFRAMED examines the recall of Judge Aaron Persky, who lost his judgeship after giving a sentence deemed too lenient by many in the sexual assault case involving Stanford swimmer Brock Turner. Tickets: eventbrite.com/e/2024-justice…