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).


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Virtual Roundtable on “Orange Is the New Black”

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 representation of race, gender, sexuality, incarceration, and the women-in-prison genre. —Heather Love: Made For TV —Megan Comfort: The Two Pipers […]