Short articles, op-eds
James Kilgore, June 6, 2014 Repackaging Mass Incarceration an overview
Zhana Kurti and Bill Martin, November 16, 2018 Cuomo’s Carceral Humanism, Jacobin, focusing on the Raise the Age Reform of 2018
The Abolition Working Group of the Ithaca Chapter of the Democratic Socialist of America, “Tompkins County Should Reject Carceral Humanism:Law enforcement and social services should not be intertwined,” February 28, 2018
Dan Berger, “What the Latest Bipartisan Prison Reform Gets Wrong and Why It Matters,” Truthout, November 16, 2018 on the new bipartisan/Trump reform bill
Alexis Pleus and Kevin Revier,“Skepticism over jail treatment plan,” (Broome County), Pressconnects, July 28, 2018 on using jails as treatment centers for substance use disorders
New York Times, Editorial, “If Addiction Is a Disease, Why Is Relapsing a Crime?,”
Grainne Why Drug Courts are not the Answer , ACLU Maine, March 19th, 2014
James Kilgore (with Emmet Sanders) on e-shackles Ankle Monitors Aren’t Humane. They’re Another Kind of Jail, Wired 8/4/18
Sarah Lazare, “Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris Both Fall Short on Abolishing Money Bail,” In These Times, November 13, 2018 on why bail reform bills fail
Mecke Nagel, “Policing Families: The Many-Headed Hydra of Surveillance” APA Newsletter for Feminism and Philosophy, 17(2), 2018, pp. 2-11.
Audio/Video
Alexandra Cox interviewing Judah Schept and James Kilgore on carceral humanism and the efforts to oppose jail in Dutchess county. https://wavefarm.org/archive/w9mh2q