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• LANGUAGE BARRIERS AND CULTURAL INCOMPETENCY IN THE CRIMINAL LEGAL SYSTEM: THE PREJUDICIAL IMPACTS ON LEP CRIMINAL DEFENDANTS.

  Author:Sarah MoyaFrom:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 2)

  Feb. 202214,000 words Article 2010LINTRODUCTION The criminal legal system is a maze. People who find themselves in this maze are frequently cornered by its classist and racist hedges and dead ends. While much of the system is plagued with elitist...

• THE CLIODYNAMICS OF MASS INCARCERATION, CLIMATE CHANGE, AND "CHAINS ON OUR FEET".

  Author:Nadia B. AhmadFrom:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 2)

  Feb. 202211,542 words Article 2020LINTRODUCTION "What's the urgency?" - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (2) "When they talk about the USA, they say it is a country with justice. That's a lie." (3) President Joe Biden stood at the podium during his...

• CLIMATE CHANGE AND INCARCERATED POPULATIONS: CONFRONTING ENVIRONMENTAL AND CLIMATE INJUSTICES BEHIND BARS.

  Authors:Emily C. Gribble and David N. PellowFrom:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 2)

  Feb. 202211,651 words Article 2450LINTRODUCTION The United States incarcerates more people than any other country in the world. (1) In fact, the population of the United States accounts for less than 5% of the global population but holds 20% of the...

• HELL AND HIGH WATER: HOW CLIMATE CHANGE CAN HARM PRISON RESIDENTS AND JAIL RESIDENTS, AND WHY COVID-19 CONDITIONS LITIGATION SUGGESTS MOST FEDERAL COURTS WILL WAIT-AND-SEE WHEN ASKED TO INTERVENE.

  Authors:Paloma Wu and D. Korbin FelderFrom:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 2)

  Feb. 202234,450 words Article 1960LINTRODUCTION This Article proposes that COVID-19 prison and jail conditions litigation provide insights into how federal courts may analyze future climate-related prison and jail litigation. The global COVID-19...

• REMAKING PUBLIC DEFENSE IN AN ABOLITIONIST FRAMEWORK: NON-REFORMIST REFORM AND THE GIDEON PROBLEM.

  Author:Eli Salomon-AbramsFrom:Fordham Urban Law Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 2)

  Feb. 202218,254 words Article 2380L"[E]very thirty years or so, as this country's distinctively intransigent intersection of race, crime, and poverty sparks another round of politicized and international uproar, the right to counsel lurches in a new...