How America's prisons turned a “brutal and inhumane” practice into standard procedure
Originally meant to be brief and exceptional, solitary confinement in US prisons has become …

Just before Thanksgiving 2019, Lindie Keaton, a resident of Greene County, Ohio, to the
east of Dayton, attended a public hearing on a proposed sales tax increase to fund a jail …

Focusing on police chiefs in three states, this study revisits the Weberian presumption of the
state's monopoly on legitimate violence. Seventy-nine interviews with police chiefs in …

This paper draws on in-depth, qualitative interviews that examine individual experiences in
two different legal contexts: deportation regimes and supermax prisons. Through putting …

Research on administrative constitutionalism has generally come out of law of schools, from
scholars specializing in public law. A limitation of thw existing scholarship is its relatively thin …

This study provides the first systematic, nationally representative analysis of administrative
records of solitary confinement placements in any carceral setting. We examine patterns in …

Over the past 40 years, life imprisonment without the possibility of parole (LWOP) has been
transformed from a rare sanction and marginal practice of last resort into a routine …

This article examines how we might best examine the most extreme and inaccessible
corners of imprisonment. Drawing on a study of life imprisonment without parole (LWOP) in …

Much of the literature explaining both mass incarceration and increasingly harsh
punishment policies has been dominated by a focus on factors external to prisons, such as …

This Article identifies and seeks to redress a lack of attention to the administrative aspects of
prisons. This shifting of the center of attention affects two bodies of legal scholarship: prison …