“The integrated yard policy (IYP) is per force a staged fight because integrating rival factions will always lead to violence…In my experience, the IYP was always a device used to break the leadership [...] Continue Reading
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California Prison Gladiator Fights, Again!
In July 2022, populations inside all California prisons began being forced by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) to intermix across hostile groups, resulting in [...] Continue Reading
Rehabilitating the Finances of California Incarceration
Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB), the Transformative In-Prison Workgroup (TPW) and many more community-based organizations and coalitions are shining a light on taxpayer funds that [...] Continue Reading
FUSD Reminds Us of the Punishment-Racism Commitment
The U.S. cultural fixation on punishment relies on major institutions to recycle and recirculate beliefs and practices that make chronic punishment look “natural,” “inevitable” and “timeless.” The [...] Continue Reading
College Students with Criminal Records
In my recent study of California college students with criminal records (CSCR), we are invited to bear witness to one way that decolonizing practices can unfold in higher education institutions. In [...] Continue Reading
“Why Invest in You?”: Parole Barriers
The grievance process. When resources become unavailable, or parole officers (POs) misbehave, or a rule is unlawfully enforced, the only recourse that a person has to alleviate the adversity is called [...] Continue Reading
Punishing Children
Institutions have and will continue to fail on multiple levels no matter the mission statement. This is related to our institutions having been designed within the confines of the U.S. cultural [...] Continue Reading
Adultifying BIPOC Children for Punishment
Many of us already know that there are two legal systems just as classical novels have articulated about the economic and political experiences of communities along race and class lines. One U.S. [...] Continue Reading
Punishing Mothers and Children Is a Strategy of Colonizing
Women in prisons are significantly mothers. According to recent research, more than 60% of the women in prisons have children minors for which they are the sole caregivers. Combined with the Adoption [...] Continue Reading
Isolation Punishment Continues after Prison
By Morghan Vélez Young and Andrew Winn Isolation from incarceration—whether in the general prison population or in a secure housing unit (SHU)—is punishment; the very act of sentencing persons to [...] Continue Reading
Parole Punishes Everyone
By Jaime Leyva and Morghan Vélez Young Exploring the punishment of parole in the United States allows us to identify the ways that the design of parole serves as an arm of the cultural fixation [...] Continue Reading
Decolonizing Public Safety
Exploring Punishment By Morghan Vélez Young (Editor’s note: “Exploring Punishment” is a new series about the U.S. fixation with punishment that will journey beyond explorations of jails and [...] Continue Reading