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Courted by the Right: A Growing Movement of Right-Wing Sheriffs

Over the past decade, sectors on the Right have been making a concerted effort to mobilize county sheriffs to support and expand systems of racialized social control and expulsion. With COVID-19 flourishing in incarcerated populations, 3,081 county sheriffs (90% of whom are cis White men) oversee the county jails that hold approximately a third of the total incarcerated population in the U.S. Some sheriffs are refusing basic measures to reduce disease spread, others are establishing second amendment and anti-abortion sanctuary cities, and more still are perpetuating and profiting from the carceral state.

With the special release of a new, comprehensive interactive map identifying right-wing sheriffs and their affiliations, PRA research analysts Cloee Cooper and Ethan Fauré will explore the unchecked power that local sheriffs wield in conversation with movement organizers working to unseat some of the most anti-democratic sheriffs currently in office.

Sep 17, 2020 04:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)