By Kris Hermes Kris Hermes is a longstanding NLG Legal Worker, a current member of the NLG MassDefense Steering Committee, a former NLG National Office staff and board member, andauthor of Crashing the Party: Legacies and Lessons from the RNC 2000 (PM Press).
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Editor’s Preface – Vol. 79, No. 1 (Summer 2023)
By Dalia Fuleihan In the United States the specter of mass incarceration and police violence looms large over our daily lives. It seems that almost every week we are privy to news stories about the death of unarmed civilians at the hands of the police, and abuses within the prison system. As systematic abuses continue […]
Incentivizing Violence: How the Financial Incentives in Policing Maintain Racism, Classism, and Mass Incarceration
By Patrick Hogan Patrick works for a legal aid organization with a focus in criminal records relief. He formerly worked in public safety roles and was a legal research volunteer for the NLG New York Chapter’s Civil Litigation Task Force.
Poem: We been knew the cops
By Sabyne “Free” Pierre Sabyne “Free” Pierre is an organizer, law student, and poet at heart. Free uses art to process their personal experiences to advocate for legal, systemic changes. In their poem, “we been knew the cops”, they interact with a younger version of themselves, who still exists somewhere and grapples with the lasting […]
Involuntary Civil Commitment as Mass Incarceration
By Tristan Campbell
The Evolution of a Solution
By Kinetik Justice Kinetik Justice Amun has been imprisoned and serving life without parole since he was twenty years old, but has not allowed his circumstances to deter him from fighting for justice, for himself and others. For almost all that time, he has been in segregation for once concocted reason or another. While in […]
Editor’s Preface – Vol. 78, No. 4 (Winter 2023)
By Dalia Fuleihan As the New Year approaches, we may feel called to reflect on the past year. 2022 has been a turbulent year with many dramatic events with far reaching implications—war in Ukraine, setbacks in abortion rights, continued violence against marginalized communities, the midterm elections, and a controversial World Cup hosted in Qatar, to […]
A Carefully Selected Tenancy: Public Housing and Racial Segregation in New York City
By David Leeds David Leeds graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center with exceptional pro bono pledge recognition in 2022 and is currently the Region II Legal Honors fellow at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Acknowledgements: I would like to thank Professor Sheryll D. Cashin, Diane Lee, and the rest of […]
Book Review: No Equal Justice: The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett
Book by Edward J. Littlejohn and Peter J. Hammer Review by David Gesspass David Gespass has been on the editorial board of the National Lawyers Guild Review for over twenty-years including several years as Editor in Chief. He is a past president of the National Lawyers Guild. David is doing his best to retire from […]
Promoting Justice During Union Organizing: The Persuader Rule
By Jeffrey P. Nieznanski Jeffrey P. Nieznanski is a supervising attorney at Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc. and co-chairs the Monroe County Bar Association Elder Law Committee. Prior to his legal career, he was a union representative in Washington, D.C. and Rochester, N.Y.