'Legal Plunder' @joshpage.bsky.social @joesoss.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social is recommended in our Year in Books by Managing Editor @adammcgee.bsky.social as "innovative and refreshingly frank."

North Carolina raising the cost of products sold in state prisons by five cents is a significant increase to incarcerated workers who typically earn between forty cents and $1.25 per day.

Good reporting on police departments' growing use of drones to automate and expand citation-based fines and surveillance. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

#ICYMI: Our Co-Executive Director Joanna Weiss sat down with the authors of Legal Plunder to explore how fines & fees: 🔹 Turn courts into self-funding revenue schemes 🔹 Act as a hidden tax on over-policed communities 🔹 Push families into impossible choices 🎬 Watch now: tinyurl.com/5fje5tcy

The incomparable health & human rights leader Dr Mary Bassett has been terminated - a shocking move by Harvard bowing to pressure 🇺🇸 Read more & sign petition

Thanks @bailproject.org for the interview! Cash bail does not just fuel injustice and compromise public safety. It also enables widespread financial extraction that harms families and communities and intensifies inequality. #LegalPlunder cc/ @joesoss.bsky.social

Join us for a talk with Legal Plunder authors, @joesoss.bsky.social & @joshpage.bsky.social, exploring how our fines & fees system came to be & what it will take to dismantle it. In-person registration is closed — but there’s still time to join virtually! 🗓️ 12/3, 12 PM ET 🎟️ tinyurl.com/3bnpprvb

If you're interested in hearing about my new book with @joesoss.bsky.social, Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice, join us virtually this Wednesday for a spirited discussion with @finesandfeesjc.bsky.social.

Join FFJC Co-ED Joanna Weiss for a conversation with the authors of Legal Plunder, @joesoss.bsky.social & @joshpage.bsky.social, exploring how our fines & fees system took shape and what it will take to dismantle it. 🗓️ 12/3, 12 PM ET 📍 Online or at New York Law School 🎟️ tinyurl.com/3bnpprvb

"Penal operations that isolate, deprive, and control do more than just warehouse; they make incarcerated populations productive by ushering them into projects that generate substantial public and private revenues." @joshpage.bsky.social & @joesoss.bsky.social on prisons & $$$

Very much looking forward to this event in NYC with @finesandfeesjc.bsky.social. Please join us in person or online for a spirited discussion about Legal Plunder. cc/ @joesoss.bsky.social

If you're in or near NYC on December 3, I hope you'll join us for this important conversation. Free and open to the public.

The moral arc of The New York Groove is long, but it bends toward "a wicked lady sittin' by my side, sayin', where are we?" RIP Ace Frehley.

AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries

Important: @fwd.us just posted a nice short piece on how ICE agents are using bench warrants -- often for unpaid criminal legal debts -- as pretexts for raiding private properties and indiscriminately detaining residents. #LegalPlunder myemail.constantcontact.com/Unwarranted-...

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts. We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Great post from @worthrises.bsky.social on how the "big beautiful bill" is showering public funds on the prison industry, supercharging profits and transforming detention and incarceration in America. #LegalPlunder worthrises.org/blogpost/202... @biancatylek.bsky.social @joshpage.bsky.social

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

Excellent report on asset seizures in Minnesota and Minneapolis #LegalPlunder minnesotareformer.com/2025/10/09/m...

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Excited to read this! Thanks @joesoss.bsky.social & @joshuapage.bsky.social

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

The brain tricks us constantly. It mistakes scrolling and "seeking information" for DOING THINGS. That is not doing. You have to act.

For those who might be interested: The Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the Humphrey School will host a book launch event for my new book with Josh Page, Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice, on September 19, noon-1:00. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Please buy this book and read it. The system is rigged against non-White American citizens. Soss’s prior book describes vividly how policy penalizes the poor. At 30% off, brilliance at a bargain!

Just finished the intro to this book (Legal Plunder) and I can already tell it’s gonna be a good one. @joshpage.bsky.social & @joesoss.bsky.social are diving deep into how the government and businesses use policing, punishment, and immigrant detention to extract revenues from communities.

Folks in the DC area: In addition to the Politics and Prose event I posted earlier (Friday at 7), @joshpage.bsky.social and I will lead a DSA Night School class on Legal Plunder this Thursday - MLK Memorial Library at 6:30. We'd love to have you join us! actionnetwork.org/events/legal...

DC Folks: Please join us at Politics & Prose this Friday 7pm for a discussion of Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). @joshpage.bsky.social and I will be in discussion with @nazgolg.bsky.social, Director of Research @sentencingproject.bsky.social

Next session: Legal Plunder!

MN SoS Steve Simon refuses to release our voter registration data to the feds. This is what resistance looks like! minnesotareformer.com/briefs/secre... #mnleg

official DHS account posting fourteen word long tweets with the H's randomly capitalized groyper occupied government

You can never bend the knee enough to appease an authoritarian bully. This is a devastating blow to academic freedom & freedom of speech at Columbia. Never in the history of this nation has there been an administration so intent on the utter destruction of higher education as we know it.

I want to be clear: this is what American prisons are like. I spent years posting about the humanitarian crisis in U.S. prisons. The criminal legal system consigns Americans who are incarcerated to live like this FOR YEARS. DECADES.

Into books about social (in)justice and saying goodbye to landmark bars of Minneapolis's West Bank? Join me to celebrate the release of @joshpage.bsky.social and @joesoss.bsky.social's book Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice at ‪@palmersman.bsky.social! #sociology #booksky

Hot damn! @uchicagopress.bsky.social is now shipping @joshpage.bsky.social and @joesoss.bsky.social's lively and incisive new book on the reorientation of US policing and punishment toward the relentless extraction of resources from America's most vulnerable. Only $26! tinyurl.com/LegalPlunderBook

Great piece illustrating just how awful prison charges for calls are (see also the recent book by @joesoss.bsky.social & @joshpage.bsky.social - Legal Plunder).

Run don’t walk this is gonna be essential reading

It took decades of work by activists to implement this reform making phone calls with inmates more affordable for families. Trump's FCC is ignoring the law to let shitty prison telecom monopolies continue to rip people off.

I ordered this. You should too!

It's hard to believe, but today is the day -- the release date for Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice, a book that @joshpage.bsky.social and I have been working on for most of the past decade. If you’d like to check it out, you can get 30% off by entering the code UCPNEW.

Prof Skocpol making a crucial point here. The centralized police. And then the lawless quasipolice who guard the camps. Trump’s death bill moves the US towards those two thresholds, well known from Germany in the 1930s. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/criti...

That infamous NYT article about Mamdani is, among other things, a perfect example of what Barbara and Karen Fields call racecraft.

The #LegalPlunder continues... and is escalating under Trump press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

If you're a member of the Democratic gerontocracy, the chances of you catching a primary challenger just went up 1000%.

The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were particularly focused on masked gunmen who violated the civil rights of Black people. We should remember this history when masked law enforcement ofcrs are deployed in our communities. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...