Rebecca McLennan

Rebecca McLennan teaches American legal, social, and political history at UC Berkeley and is the author of The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776–1841 (2008).

Virtual Roundtable on “Orange Is the New Black”

By Noah Berlatsky, Megan Comfort, Laurent Dubois, Kaveh Landsverk, Heather Love, Rebecca McLennan, Eric A. Stanley, & Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

In advance of the second season of Netflix’s original series, Orange Is the New Black, which will be released on Friday, June 6, we asked Public Books contributors to share their views on the show’s ...