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June 2015
Chancellor's Professor Emerita Kitty Calavita and Social Ecology's Dean & Professor Valerie Jenness, co-wrote Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic, which sheds light on the inmate grievance process in California. Through interviews with prisoners, prison staff and official records, the book takes us through the byzantine grievance process and explores the fine line between punishing prisoners and violating their rights.
In November, the Calavita and Jenness will participate in a corrections summit organized and hosted by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The event will, for the first time, bring together all the stakeholders in prisoner litigation to share perspectives.