James Forman, Jr.
@jformanjr
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Dad. Professor. Former usher at Atlanta Fulton-County Stadium
New Haven, CT
Joined November 2012
I’m helping @SNCCLegacy to find and connect the descendants of SNCC organizers. We started a couple of weeks ago and have already found over 100! If you were in SNCC or are related to a SNCC organizer, please consider adding family members to the list at https://t.co/TlY4lYtyhn
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Mass incarceration harms rural communities more than we acknowledge. Here's how Harris and Walz can take a justice reform agenda there.
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Rural voters want better answers to crime than overcrowded jails.
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Press should report this as incoherent, displaying mental deterioration. He is unwell. The refusal to explain how unhinged he is and instead to normalize is reprehensible
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Donald Trump is the oldest nominee in American political history.
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@premaldharia @PoliticsProse packed house for vital Dismantling Mass Incarceration discussion.
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Thursday, join @premaldharia, @jformanjr. & Maria Hawilo to discuss DISMANTLING MASS INCARCERATION - a handbook featuring advocates, experts, and formerly incarcerated people - with @ClintSmithIII - 7PM @ Conn Ave - https://t.co/FwteKNrDQp
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Read several BR contributors on policing and mass incarceration—including @dereckapurnell, Angela Y. Davis, James Forman Jr., Sarah Seo, Marie Gottschalk, @NathanJRobinson, @JessPish, and @ClintSmithIII—in this new anthology from @fsgbooks:
From @FSGOriginals, DISMANTLING MASS INCARCERATION is a vital reader on ending mass incarceration featuring advocates, experts, and formerly incarcerated people. Now available! https://t.co/4WZdgkqkET
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July's best nonfiction has women astronauts, compassionate true crime, and a look at mass incarceration. Which of these are you most excited to read? https://t.co/befJYrlqJC
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There's a lot to choose from out of July's best nonfiction releases! Read about Black American icons, coming-of-age in Texas, and more.
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Looking back on responses from @BennettCapers, @DA_LarryKrasner, @MaryMoriarty, @MrDAyala, and Angela J. Davis on prosecutors' role in ending mass incarceration, @premaldharia concludes: A prosecutor's intervention now can mean the world to someone. https://t.co/sdivUSrylH
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Prosecutors alone won’t end mass incarceration. But their interventions can mean the world to people staring down the many harms of criminalization.
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Finally holding my copy of Dismantling Mass Incarceration, and it's hefty in all the good ways. Congrats to @premaldharia @jformanjr & Maria Hawilo for collecting so many smart ideas in one place, incl. from @tsp5280 @emilybazelon @JessPish @JohnFPfaff @DA_LarryKrasner (and me).
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Can prosecutors, even progressive or reform-minded ones, help dismantle mass incarceration? In this roundtable about a new anthology of essays, to be published by @fsgbooks, @premaldharia, @jformanjr, and Maria Hawilo ponder that vexing question.
inquest.org
Can a prosecutor, even a progressive or reform-minded one, really help dismantle mass incarceration?
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Dismantling Mass Incarceration by @jformanjr @premaldharia & Maria Hawilo explores "how to make the system less harmful, less punitive, less harsh, more restorative." James Forman, Jr on how the book came to be and why the moment is right. @fsgbooks
https://t.co/fU8S4t3h1D
justicehappenshere.yale.edu
James Forman Jr. is the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School. We spoke to Professor Forman about his upcoming book Dismantling Mass Incarceration: A Handbook for Change , edited in...
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Just finished Airplane Mode, which is soooo good. Smart, funny, crisp, reflective, wise. Thank you @mixedmsgs for writing it—and thank you @msgohara for gifting it!
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Really looking forward to this event for @j_simonson's crucial Radical Acts of Justice, with @jformanjr. Next week at @brooklynhistory!
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Across the country, ordinary people are challenging the ideas that prosecutions and prisons make us safer; that public officials charged with maintaining “law and order” are carrying out the will of...
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Listening to this conversation between Dwayne Betts and David Domenici is the best 20 minutes I’ve spent in awhile.
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Almost There with Dwayne Betts · Episode
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Lots of discussion of Floridas new African-American history curriculum, especially that line about slavery helping slaves develop skills which they might be able to use for their own benefit. Is that like representative? How is the curriculum as a whole? Well, I’ve read …
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“We need this book, and we need it now.” —@jformanjr on @JCSchwartzProf’s book, SHIELDED. On sale Feb 14th. Preorder your copy now 👉 https://t.co/zNowpUHcB7
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