Join us this Friday!

Will you be at the @urbanhistorya.bsky.social conference in LA this weekend? Is to! Come say hi, we’d love to chat about our work and how to get involved!

Join Citizens for Prison Reform on the Journey to Justice Tour! For more info check out the flyer or go to tinyurl.com/JTJ-ANN-ARBOR

We’ve got a new story out, from our Juvenile Justice team. Read Engler’s “Punk Prison”: A Political Stunt here! storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/d7ed...

Our September newsletter is out! Featuring amazing new scholarship from our researchers and faculty, and some really exciting upcoming events! You can check it out here: tinyurl.com/37unz45r

Join us *this Friday* for a discussion by experts and advocates in the field of immigrant justice for a webinar examining the Trump administration’s developing immigration policies.

Join experts & advocates in the field of immigrant justice for a webinar examining the Trump administration’s draconian anti-immigrant policies. What is the current state of immigration law? What can we do to oppose this crackdown, and how can students get involved?
events.umich.edu/event/134493

Check out the new article from the @michigandaily.bsky.social on our symposium! www.michigandaily.com/news/campus-...

Thank you to everyone who came to our symposium yesterday, we had a full house!

You're invited to the Carceral State Project's 2025 Symposium on March 29th, 2025. For more info and to RSVP, click here: sites.lsa.umich.edu/dcc-project/...

Check out our newest report, by our researcher Lawson Schultz, which uses planning archives to demonstrate that the prison landscape in Michigan was not an inevitable product of history, but a consequence of active and intentional planning tinyurl.com/yc7xyunf

Join us for the 2025 CSP Symposium: The Landscape of Criminal-Legal Reform in Michigan.
Date: Sat Mar. 29th, 10:30-4:30
Location: Trotter Multicultural Center (428 S State Street)

Register at our website here: sites.lsa.umich.edu/dcc-project/...

Our researchers Prof. Melissa Burch and @ch4rlotte.bsky.social investigated the web of regulations that stop formerly incarcerated ppl from applying to most FD jobs in Cali, despite the state using these same ppl to fight forest fires for pennies during their incarceration. tinyurl.com/4kw6wh3v

1/2: One of many ways funding & support for the carceral state actually reduces our safety. Qualified firefighters r being blocked from most firefighting jobs in Cali because of regressive & racist stigma against formerly incarcerated ppl. This is actively harming the fight against #LAFires (con't)