Maya Schenwar is Editor-in-Chief of Truthout, an independent social justice news website. She has written about the...
Victoria Law is a freelance journalist who focuses on the intersections of incarceration, gender and resistance. She...
Lee Rawles joined the ABA Journal in 2010 as a web producer. She has also worked for...
At a time when the country is discussing how the justice system and policing can be reformed, it’s critical that we avoid adopting reforms that have damaging consequences. In Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms, authors Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law outline the way that well-meaning movements ended up funneling people into environments where they faced even more scrutiny and punitive measures. In this episode, the ABA Journal’s Lee Rawles discusses with Schenwar and Law examples such as the school-to-prison pipeline; court-ordered drug treatment programs with no proof of success; location-monitoring devices that are expensive and set probationers up to fail; and the invasiveness of family social services in an era of mandated reporting.
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Published: | July 22, 2020 |
Podcast: | ABA Journal: Modern Law Library |
Category: | Access to Justice , Legal News |
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