"Failure to Appear" and Housing First w/ Brian Nam-Sonenstein (Unlocked)

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🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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This episode was originally released for Death Panel patrons on October 23rd, 2023. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod Beatrice speaks with Brian Nam-Sonenstein about two recent briefs he wrote for Prison Policy Initiative focused on a few key intersections of housing, disability, incarceration, and the administrative state. Transcript forthcoming. Find the briefs here: "High stakes mistakes: How courts respond to 'failure to appear'" https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/08/15/fta/ "Seeking shelter from mass incarceration: Fighting criminalization with Housing First" https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2023/09/11/housing-first/ Find our book Health Communism here: www.versobooks.com/books/4081-health-communism Find Jules' new book, A Short History of Trans Misogyny, here: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3054-a-short-history-of-trans-misogyny Death Panel merch here (patrons get a discount code): www.deathpanel.net/merch As always, support Death Panel at www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod

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0:00.0	There's a lot of work to be done sort of reminding people how unsafe a lot of this makes all of us, how these choices and these policy decisions to impose this valence on people that they are at fault or at default, dangerous, not trustworthy, lurking around in the shadows.
0:23.6	How much responding to that image of each other makes us all unsafe. Welcome to the Death Panel.
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1:18.6	So we have a great guest on the show today, really, really, really long, over two.
1:25.7	Brian Nams Sonnenstein is a senior editor and researcher at Prison Policy Initiative,
1:31.5	one of the founders of independent media and journalism project called Shadowproof, and a co-host
1:37.3	of the absolutely fantastic podcast Beyond Prisons. I've asked him here today to talk about two
1:43.3	recent briefs that he wrote for
1:44.9	prison policy initiative that offer really crucial analysis of a few key intersections of housing,
1:50.7	disability, incarceration, and the administrative state. But also, Brian, I've just been a really
1:56.0	big fan of your work for a long time. We've been mutuals forever. It is so nice to have you on the
2:00.6	show. Welcome to the death panel. Thank you so much. It is so nice to have you on the show. Welcome
2:01.4	to the death panel. Thank you so much. It's an honor to be here. I'm excited to chat. Likewise.
2:06.4	And these two briefs, the first of which is called high stakes mistakes, how courts respond to
2:12.5	failure to appear, which discusses the way the criminal legal system layers additional criminalization
2:19.3	on folks who can't meet various administrative burdens.
2:23.0	And the second one is called seeking shelter from mass incarceration, fighting criminalization
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