The ICE Reformation Trap - Spencer Piston - Inquest Professionalization will not make immigration policing less violent. It will only increase its capacity, authority, and scope.

Indeed. ICYMI inquest.org/the-ice-refo...

The Profit Motive - Robin Bernstein & Nicole R. Fleetwood - Inquest A recent book unveils the shockingly long history of for-profit prisons—and the equally long history of incarcerated people demanding compensation for their exploited labor.

TODAY: Nicole Fleetwood and I are in dialogue about profit-driven incarceration, #prison labor, the art and intellectual work of incarcerated people, and of course William Freeman. Thanks to @inquest.bsky.social & @adammcgee.bsky.social for so much incisive critique of the #prisonindustrialcomplex.

If you would like to take the National Park Service's audio walking tour of Boston LGBTQ+ history, it's public domain and @queerhistoryboston.bsky.social has made it publicly available again, despite efforts by the Trump administration to scrub it (and us).

Over the moon that Inquest has been named a finalist for the National Magazine Awards!

Buddy is the protagonist. I just open the cans.

Almost Anti–Death Penalty | Carol Steiker | INQUEST Biden’s incomplete slate of commutations saved lives but lost the moral argument.

Joe Biden made history when he commuted the sentences of just about everyone on federal death row. But he lost the moral argument against the death penalty when he denied mercy to some, writes Carol Steiker. https://inquest.org/almost-anti-death-penalty/