Protect Your People: New Book on Participatory Defense by Raj Jayadev

Just out this month!

A new book by Raj Jayadev on participatory defense: Protect Your People: How Ordinary Families Are Using Participatory Defense to Challenge Mass Incarceration.

This book features the work being done at Silicon Valley De-Bug and grassroots participatory defense "hubs" around the country to empower people facing incarceration and their families to participate actively in their cases. This powerful model shifts the dynamic in courtrooms to allow family members, loved ones, and those facing incarceration to tell their stories, cutting years, and even decades, off of possible sentences. The new book sets forth the model in detail and features interventions key to participatory defense such as social biographies and community experts.

Chapter 5 on "Crimmigration" will be of particular interest to readers of ImmigrationProf. The chapter features contributions by Phal Sok and others discussing how participatory defense has been used to stop ICE deportations.

The book is published by The New Press and available in paperback. More information is available here.

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