by Kallie Barrie, LSPC Summer Legal Intern, UC Law SF The Federal Bureau of Prisons and departments of corrections in all 50 states and the District of Columbia censor publications for sexual or explicit content as well as content on race and civil rights.1 According to a 2026 PEN America report, any content that may threaten the security of the institution is legally … [Read more...] about Legal Corner: Censorship Through Publication
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Legal Corner: Barriers to Occupational Licensing
by Leilani Ames, LSPC Summer Law Clerk, USF School of Law Every August, people behind bars nationwide join in solidarity to “honor the lives of our fallen soldiers, practice self-care, and promote community and economic building”, citing a 2017 article published by The Medium.1 Black August serves as a month of remembrance and resistance, first celebrated in San Quentin in … [Read more...] about Legal Corner: Barriers to Occupational Licensing
Where I Found Freedom: Why I Organize
by John Cannon, LSPC Digital Organizer I didn’t feel free the day I walked out of prison. I remember how overwhelming it was to suddenly have choices after years of someone else making every decision for me. What should I eat? Where should I go? What should I wear? None of those choices mattered as much as what was waiting for me on the other side of those gates: I … [Read more...] about Where I Found Freedom: Why I Organize
Policy Update: Manufacturing Poverty
by Nedric Miller, LSPC Senior Policy Fellow For far too long, poverty has carried a price tag in America, and nowhere has that been more painfully obvious than in the legal system, where being poor often means being punished twice: once by the court, and again by the bill that follows. This legislative cycle, LSPC is cosponsoring AB 2428 (C. Rodriguez): An Act to End Poverty … [Read more...] about Policy Update: Manufacturing Poverty
Popular Sovereignty and Colonialism (Jurisprudence for Jailhouse Lawyers, Part VIII)
by Eric C. Sapp, LSPC Senior Staff Attorney A quarter of a millennium after declaring independence, the U.S.A. remains a complex of opposites. A relatively strong democratic culture is combined with a political economy of plutocracy, the rule of wealth. Its legal order of formal equality is joined to material inequalities. The constitutional republic has grown into an empire … [Read more...] about Popular Sovereignty and Colonialism (Jurisprudence for Jailhouse Lawyers, Part VIII)
