Media, Public Writing, & Talks

Media Coverage

"New Jersey Ditched Cash Bail. Research Shows the Reform Didn’t Increase Violence" The Trace

"Behind a Surge in Teenage Killings: Grief, Anger and Online Grudges" The New York Times

"Biden's Plan for More Police Won't Make America Safer"  TIME

"Rates of Solitary Confinement of Incarcerated People with Mental Illness Three Times Higher" Medical Xpress

"Sociologist Jessica Simes’ New Book Explores the Toll of Mass Incarceration and Its Racial Disparities" The Brink

"Did COVID-19 Change the Way Police Interact with Citizens?" GovTech

“It's Like a Slow War, Like a Slow Burn. Like a Slow, Quiet Form of Torture” The Appeal

"One in 10 US Black men put in solitary confinement before turning 32" New Scientist

"Why Boredom Affects Us So Much" The Atlantic

"Solitary Confinement is Torture" Marginal Revolution

"Released Prisoners Struggle to Establish Neighborhood Connections" CityLab

"Mapping Mass Incarceration" The Brink

Public Writing

"Gov. Healey’s Opportunity to Drive Transformative Change" CommonWealth (with Julian Agyeman, Tiffany Joseph, Jennie Stephens, & Natasha Warikoo)

"A New Way to Assess the Far-Reaching Impacts of Mass Incarceration" UC Press Blog

"Policing Health" Inquest (with Jaquelyn Jahn)

"Vulnerable Places" Inquest

"Why Place Matters For Understanding--and Reversing--America's Mass Incarceration Epidemic" Scholars Strategy Network