Dismantling mass incarceration: a handbook for change

Part I. Police. How I became a police abolitionist / Derecka Purnell

Ghettoside author Jill Leovy on what we have learned since Rodney King : not nearly enough, she says / Jill Leovy, in conversation with The Marshall Project's Bill Keller

How cities can tackle violent crime without relying on police / Patrick Sharkey, in conversation with Roǧ Karma

Whom can we call for help? Police should not always be the only option / The Washington Post Editorial Board

From crisis to care / Kathering Beckett, Forrest Stuart, and Monica Bell

Police officers shouldn't be the ones to enforce traffic laws / Sarah A. Seo

Fines, fees, and police divestment : statement and policy recommendations /

Fines and Fees Justice Center

She wants to fix one of Louisiana's deadliest jails. She needs to beat the sheriff first / Jessica Pishko

Bring it on : the future of penal reform, the carceral state, and American politics / Matt Gottschalk

Part II. Prosecutors. From Locked in: the true causes of mass incarceration and how to achieve real reform / John F. Pfaff

Bordenkircher v. Hayes / Justice Potter Stewart

Tipping the scales : challengers take on the old boys' clib of elected prosecutors / Reflective Democracy Campaign

From Charged : the new movement to transform American prosecution and end mass incarceration / Emily Bazelon

Reimagining prosecution : a growing progressive movement / Angela J. Davis

Memorandum on new policies / Larry Krasner

Beyond reform : four virtues of a transformational prosecutor / Taylor Pendragon and Somil Trivedi

Can prosecutors end mass incarceration? / Rachel E. Barkow

Abolitionist principles and campaign strategies for prosecutor organizing / Community Justice Exchange, CourtWatch MA, Families for Justice as Healing, Project NIA, and Survived and Punished NY

Should good people be prosecutors? / Paul Butler

Part III. Public defenders. Gideon v. Wainwright / Justice Hugo L. Black

An essay on the new public defender for the twenty-first century / Charles J. Ogletree Jr.

Defending those people / Abbe Smith

Want to reduce mass incarceration? Fund public defenders / Noah Berlatsky

Poor people lose : Gideon and the critique of rights / Paul D. Butler

The end of public defenders / Matthew Caldwell

Why public defenders matter more than ever in a time of reform / John F. Pfaff

Ten things public defenders can do to stand up for racial justice / Jeff Adachi

Black on Black representation / Alexzis Hoag-Fordjour

Manhattan DA race 2021 : a voter guide / Five Boro Defenders

1,862 fewer years in prison / Raj Jayadev

Interview with Raj Jayadev / conducted by Premal Dharia

Part IV. Judges. Mass. high court lowers burden for proving racial bias in police stops / Ally Jarmanning

Judge frees man from Rikers in exceptional decision citing bail and jail conditions / Sam Mellins

New Jersey bail conversation / Alexander Shalom and Elie Honig, interviewed by James Forman Jr.

How to save a life from the jury box / William Snowden

United States v. Halim Flowers / Judge Ronna Lee Beck

State of Connecticut v. Keith Belcher / Justice Raheem L. Mullins

How progressives are knocking out local judges across the country / Ian Ward

Reimagining judging / Nancy Gertner

Part V. Prisons. From Are prisons obsolete? / Angela Y. Davis

Nine perspectives for prison abolitionists / Fay Honey Knopp

Can prison abolition ever be pragmatic? / Nathan J. Robinson

The case for abolition / Ruth Wilson Gilmore and James Kilgore

"On cages" Twitter thread / Reginald Dwayne Betts

North Dakota's Norway experiment / Dashka Slater

Restoring Pell grants

and possibilities

for prisoners /

Clint Smith

The inside-out prison exchange program : its origin, essence, and global reach / Lori Pompa

Reginald Dwayne Betts on his groundbreaking prison library project / Adrian Horton

A future for Susanville / Piper French

Part VI. Aftermath. United States v. Chevelle Nesbeth / Judge Frederic Block

A conversation about second chance employment / Lawrence Bartley, Crystal Mourlas-Jaun, and Rahsaan Sloan

The case for a fair chance housing act : from a brother's perspective / Zachariah Oquenda

D.C. residents are voting from prison this week / Kira Lerner

The time I was called for jury duty . . . and what happened next / James M. Binnall

Rights restoration success stories / Ben Fleury-Steiner.