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May 21, 2024 · James Forman Jr. is the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He has worked as a law clerk for Judge William Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor of the U.S. Supreme Court, and served as a Public Defender in Washington, D.C., where for six years he represented both juveniles and adults ...
May 23, 2024 · This is part of a broader phenomenon legal scholar James Forman Jr. describes in his Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.” “Although police work paid decently, it didn’t make the officers rich, and maintaining wages and benefits was a constant struggle.
2 days ago · Former public defender James Forman, Jr. is a leading critic of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. In Locking Up Our Own, he seeks to understand the war on crime that began in the 1970s and why it was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers.
May 17, 2024 · Yale Law School. Area. Social and Behavioral Sciences. Specialty. Law. Elected. 2023. James Forman Jr. is the J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law. He attended public schools in Detroit and New York City before graduating from the Atlanta Public Schools.
May 21, 2024 · Audiobook Summary: Locking Up Our Own (English) James Forman Jr. - YouTube. Story Planet. 537 subscribers. Subscribed. 0. No views 1 minute ago. "Locking Up Our Own (2017) discusses the US...
May 7, 2024 · Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America by James Forman Jr. Necropolitics: the Religious Crisis of Mass Incarceration in America by Christophe D. Ringer Race to Incarcerate by The Sentencing Project. Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era by Dan Berger
May 23, 2024 · James Forman and other SNCC activists contributed to the revision. It still complained that the Administration had not done enough to protect southern black people and civil rights workers from physical violence by whites in the Deep South.
