As reported on the front page of today’s @nytimes, @uclaprisondata has just launched our carceral mortality database, containing the first comprehensive accounting of deaths in prison in 2020, during the first year of the pandemic.

Recently joined a house-swapping app and have stayed in some truly gorgeous places, including a home up in the Berkeley Hills with stunning views of the Bay. Like AirBNB except exchange credits earned by hosting rather than money. To try for five nights:

RT @Taniel: NEW: My cheat sheet to Tuesday features more than 500 races up and down the ballot. Now we have it in PDF, printable form: Sav….

RT @tribelaw: “In honor of JD Vance & Usha Vance. YLS Class of 2013 stands against scapegoating & demagoguery drawn straight from the playb….

RT @schuy_ler:

RT @theappeal: The Appeal is seeking information on how Hurricane Helene is affecting incarcerated people and their loved ones. Please DM o….

RT @IncarcerNation: NC floods were caused by the French Broad River flooding from hurricane rains. Immediately next to the river in the flo….

RT @Taniel: Sheriffs are so critical. They oversee the plague of jail deaths. They decide how to partner with ICE. They're part of all sort….

RT @keribla: NEW: Major structural deficiencies at Men's Central Jail could turn the decaying building into a deathtrap in the next earthqu….

RT @BiancaTylek: This was the “hack” that incarcerated people used to create the $1M they spent on the corporation’s own predatorily priced….

RT @DovWaxman: I hope @DNC will recognize before it's too late that it's necessary and important for a Palestinian-American voice to be pla….

RT @BiancaTylek: I love the way city and state comptrollers are stepping up to stop the prison industry's gross abuse of our communities. E….

Here for the campaign ad that’s just a bunch of his former students talking about how much they loved Mr. Walz’s social studies class.

RT @JimmyJenkins: When I presented our findings to the state agency in charge of collecting in-custody death statistics, they said "Those n….

This is deep, important, thoughtful reporting on the staggering mortality rate in Maricopa County’s jails—and the failures of transparency that concealed it—from @JimmyJenkins. Grateful to have had the opportunity to weigh in alongside Andrea Armstrong and @jaydaronson.

RT @keribla: For >3 years, LASD secretly investigated — & urged the Cal AG to prosecute — an @latimes reporter who wrote about a leaked lis….

RT @DanWernerLaw: 1/10 @splcenter has just laid off 80+ of the most talented advocates I've known & entirely eliminated its immigrant justi….

RT @EthanSCorey: Major update in @theappeal's FOIA lawsuit seeking to compel the federal Department of Justice to release records on in-cus….

RT @hernandezstroud: Colorado today became the first state in U.S. history to require county jails to set up in-person voting stations to e….

RT @segalmr: PEOPLE OF EARTH: Do you like civil rights & civil liberties? Do you like courts. where it's possible to advance those things….

Huge congrats to my colleague @JCSchwartzProf on this well-deserved recognition of her preeminent work.