Santa Cruz Book Launch: Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine | Jul 18, 2025, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM @ucscartsdivision.bsky.social Santa Cruz, 100 Panetta Ave RSVP: www.reframeconsults.com/event-detail...

Chicago! June 24: launch of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future @thenewpress.bsky.social at @haymarkethouse.bsky.social . Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with longtime abolitionist organizer and author @mayaschenwar.bsky.social. RSVP:

Thank you, Quentin Hardy, for coming to the launch of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine in Oakland and featuring it in your newsletter. Read the full article: thenewcuriosityshop.substack.com/p/fix-your-i...

The Bay Area Book Fest is this weekend! Catch me on Sunday, June 1: Ghosts of Justice: Exposing the Failures and Reimagining the Future of the American Legal System Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, Dorsey E. Nunn, Gianna Toboni Moderator: Piper Kerman More Info: www.reframeconsults.com/event-detail...

Bay Area: Emile Suotonye DeWeaver on tour. Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future​ @thenewpress.bsky.social RSVP: www.reframeconsults.com/events

After 21 years of incarceration, former client @emilesdeweaver.bsky.social found healing through writing. Now an award-winning writer and activist, with a new book launch and a tour ahead: www.reframeconsults.com/events We’re honored to witness his journey, transformation, and growth.

Thank you for sharing an excerpt of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine, @truthout.org 🙏🏿

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"Mine was one of many lives the state had condemned to end slowly." "[W]hat can we do if all the characteristics we've experienced in contemporary society are white supremacist characteristics? Can we imagine the unimaginable? In a word, yes." #USA #Incarceration

It’s publication day for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver, my debut, out with The New Press @thenewpress.bsky.social.

From @thenewpress.bsky.social: After 21 years in prison, Emile Suotonye DeWeaver wrote GHOST IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE MACHINE—a bold and deeply personal examination of how white supremacy distorts criminal justice reform.

Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future​ (The New Press) comes out in a week and I will be on tour. More info and RSVP: www.reframeconsults.com/events

Oakland book launch for Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine (The New Press) by Emile Suotonye DeWeaver in conversation with Nayomi Munaweera at Understory. May 17, 5:00-7:00 pm

“Despite reform efforts that have grown in scope and intensity over the last two decades, the machine of American mass incarceration continues to flourish.” search.app/jQDa4boeCM5h... Cat Brooks interviews Emile Suotonye DeWeaver about Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine.

Thank you to Leon Garber and Alen Ulman from Seize the Moment Podcast for a great conversation. Emile Suotonye DeWeaver - The Near Enemy of Justice: Dismantling Mass Incarceration | STM #238 www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3qE...

It’s independent bookstore day. Celebrate by supporting your local bookstore pre-ordering Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine, or online, go to Bookshop.org Free shipping! bookshop.org/p/books/note...

Come party with me, Samiya Bashir, and the Unicorn Authors Club online, Thursday, April 17 at 5pm PST. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

If groups in power can control what we experience, they can own our imaginations. Read a little more about the imagination problem in my new substack post “New York Correctional Officers Strike” substack.com/@reframeconsults

What's giving you hope? Here are three things keeping me afloat: 🧵

Emile Suotonye DeWeaver is a 2025 Writing Freedom Fellow. DeWeaver is the author of Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine (2025) and writes about the insidious ways white supremacy compromises freedom. Listen to him read from his book:

Honored to share I'm a 2025 Writing Freedom Fellow This fellowship connects me to a larger conversation about justice. Our problems can’t be solved by one person’s ideas. A collective must discuss ideas and come to a consensus about how we will move as a movement.

I’m Emile Suotonye DeWeaver. Ghost in the Criminal Justice Machine: Reform, White Supremacy, and an Abolitionist Future (May 13, 2025 @thenewpress) is my forthcoming essay collection. Pre-order it: www.reframeconsults.com/ghostinthecr...