AngryBrownButch

Category: prison abolition

  • Examining the justice that we seek

    Thanks to Margarita for helping me talk and think and rethink through these issues today. Like the other people I know with politics similar to mine, I was angry when I heard about the verdict in the Sean Bell case this morning. And I’m still angry, for sure. I still feel like justice has been…

  • Sanesha Stewart, Lawrence King, and why hate crimes legislation won’t help

    I’ve been out of town and subsequently out of touch for a while now, visiting El Paso with my partner to meet her incomprehensibly adorable two-week-old nephew. But in the midst of the happiness that babies and family and vacation bring, two pieces of tragic news have weighed heavily on my mind. Both of them…

  • The death penalty – on request?

    For years, I’ve been a staunch opponent of the death penalty. To me it seems both barbaric and unjust. In a fallible and inequitable criminal justice system, one can never be sure that the death penalty is applied evenly and without bias. And with the spate of false convictions that have been uncovered in the…