Dan Berger

Dan Berger is the author of Stayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family’s Journey, among other titles, and curator of the Washington Prison History Project. Follow him on Twitter @dnbrgr or www.danberger.info.

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Prisons & Policing

Bipartisan Reforms Often Expand Prisons and Police. We Need Abolition Instead.

If the system is functioning as it is designed to, then “reform” will almost always find ways to reinforce the norm.

By: Dan Berger ,; Truthout

September 20, 2021

News Analysis

Prisons & Policing

The GOP’s Police Reforms Won’t Do It. We Need to Defund the Police.

The GOP police reform bill seems more concerned with stopping the protests than stopping the abuses that sparked them.

By: Dan Berger ,; Truthout

June 17, 2020

Op-Ed

Prisons & Policing

Don’t Be Fooled — Kamala Harris’s “Criminal Justice” Plan Is Not Progressive

Harris's plan is about brand management, not political vision.

By: Dan Berger ,; Truthout

September 10, 2019

Op-Ed

Prisons & Policing

Rise in White Prisoners Doesn’t Change Innate Racism of Prisons

There is a powerful political constituency to mobilize against the cruelties of the U.S. carceral state.

By: Dan Berger ,; Truthout

April 28, 2019

Op-Ed

Prisons & Policing

“Prison Reform” Is Not Enough. In 2019, Let’s Fight for Decarceration.

Radical critics of the prison system have a difficult but familiar task in the coming year.

By: Dan Berger ,; Truthout

January 2, 2019

Op-Ed

Prisons & Policing

What the Latest Bipartisan Prison Reform Gets Wrong and Why It Matters

The bill currently being put forward is both weak and dangerous.

By: Dan Berger ,; Truthout

November 16, 2018

Review

Welfare and Imprisonment: How “Get Tough” Politics Have Excluded People From Society

Mass incarceration and welfare cuts have the same origin: the US's deadly get-tough politics.

By: Dan Berger ,; Truthout

June 17, 2017

Op-Ed

Black Genealogies of Power: Seven Maxims for Resistance in the Trump Years

These seven maxims of power culled from the Black radical tradition can help guide the fight against Trumpism.

By: Dan Berger ,; Truthout

February 27, 2017

Op-Ed

A Brief History of the “War on Cops”: The False Allegation That Enables Police Violence

The war on cops does not exist, but the idea has been used to justify increasing police violence.

By: Dan Berger ,; Truthout

July 21, 2016

Excerpt

Freedom From Violence: Lessons From Black Prisoner Organizing

As prison organizing demonstrates, the pursuit of freedom from violence is rooted in care and creativity.

By: Dan Berger ,; TheUniversityofNorthCarolinaPress

May 31, 2016

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