Imani Radney

Jan 7, 2025 | publicbooks.org | Dan Berger |Imani Radney

The criminal legal system can often seem monolithic in its trends toward repression and social control. Yet attending to the breadth of institutions comprising the legal system, their specific structure and purpose, is necessary to understanding what the system does and how. Take the police. Much of the focus in our conversations of police violence has understandably concentrated on the urban police department.

Nov 13, 2024 | publicbooks.org | Robert L. Tsai |Imani Radney

On April 1, 1992, the Senate Judiciary Committee convened to decide whether Alabama Assistant Attorney General Ed Carnes should become a judge on the US Court of Appeals. For 11 of the 16 years he worked as a government lawyer, Carnes had run the state’s unit that litigated cases of capital punishment. Usually Supreme Court nominations generate the most attention.