For many years, our individual work and activism have focused
largely on the structural violence—raced, classed, gendered, ableist—
of policing, prosecution, and prisons. A decade ago, together, we
began following the money of an emergent wave of “bipartisan criminal
justice reform.” This concise book distills much of what we have
learned over time, always with the help and insight of so many others
whose work has, in varying ways, illuminated a murky and troubling
reform landscape. We express special gratitude here to organizations
and individuals whose work has been especially helpful, often
inspirational, to us. At the same time, no one else is responsible for
the analysis and conclusions in this book. The responsibility for any
errors and shortcomings is also ours.