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Recent Posts
- Mapping Mass Incarceration: A Conversation with Eric Cadora
- Supreme Court: California Prison Population Must Decrease by 46,000
- The Carceral Continuum: Interview with Caleb Smith
- Change from the Inside: Community-Based Justice
- RIPPD presents the NYPD with a plan to bring CCITs to NYC
- Welcome to the Control blog
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- A Feature Documentary
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BLOG Archive
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Mapping Mass Incarceration: A Conversation with Eric Cadora
Posted on August 4, 2011 | No CommentsWe spoke with Eric Cadora and he led us through one of his major projects, the Justice Atlas, an interactive mapping device that allows users to explore the intersections of various data points (race, incarceration, public assistance, and so on) within their own communities. -
Supreme Court: California Prison Population Must Decrease by 46,000
Posted on May 23, 2011 | No CommentsThis morning the US Supreme Court reaffirmed a previous court order requiring the state of California to reduce dramatically the number of people in its horribly overcrowded state prison system. -
The Carceral Continuum: Interview with Caleb Smith
Posted on April 14, 2011 | No CommentsCaleb Smith’s The Prison and the American Imagination is a startling work that wrestles with how our society’s conceptions of “the criminal,” “the prisoner,” and “the disciplinary institution” have become literally carved into our landscapes and branded on our psyches. -
Change from the Inside: Community-Based Justice
Posted on February 6, 2011 | No Comments“We’re looking at the types of cases that come through the criminal justice system, and trying to work out more meaningful outcomes.” James Brodick of the Center for Court Innovation (CCI) spoke with us this month about the strengths of community-based courts, as evidenced by CCI’s innovative center in Brooklyn,... -
RIPPD presents the NYPD with a plan to bring CCITs to NYC
Posted on January 17, 2011 | No CommentsRights for Imprisoned People with Psychiatric Disabilities (RIPPD), is a grassroots, direct action organization, united to demand justice and social change for imprisoned people with psychiatric disabilities. Community Crisis Intervention Teams are vital to reversing the trend of criminalizing people with mental illness and depriving them of the human rights that... -
Welcome to the Control blog
Posted on January 9, 2011 | No CommentsWe have started this blog in order to keep tabs on all of the research, news stories, developments, and activism going on right now around the country–information that is both critical to our understanding of the issues underpinning this documentary, and most of all, useful to our audience. We hope...