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Disability and Abolition w/ Liat Ben-Moshe (01/26/23)

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How Can Decarcerating Disability Make Interventions?

I think we mythologize it as a much more sort of simple, almost romanticized understanding of how change happens where it sort of progresses forward linearly. And this is more, you know, a process of all sorts of different things happening at once and nothing progresses really linearly. So I would say there's been a resurgence that I haven't seen since probably the 80s of trying to increase civil commitments in voluntary civil commitments through policy legislation and a variety of local means of that nature. In California, that took the form of what is called care courts and the care is an acronym. It's a carceral approach to supposedly help people who are housing insecure. And in New York

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