Posts Tagged ‘Incarceration’
Too Many of Them Have Been Wrong’: Black Ex-Prosecutor Exposes Misdeeds of Los Angeles Legal System In Volume of Online Stories
A former LA proscecutor’s online memoir details his “good fight” against an “assembly-line of incarceration.”
Read MoreActivists celebrate decision to close ‘hellish’ St Louis jail
A glimpse of good news as activists in St. Lous celebrate the closing of a medium sized prison that had a reputation as a debtors’ jail.
Read MoreThe Origins of Prison Slavery
The real origin of prison slavery is found in the 13th amendment which allows forced labor “as punishment for a crime.”
Read MoreNAACP sues Connecticut over ‘prison gerrymandering’
The suit coming from the NAACP is part of larger effort to fight practices that the NAACP argues are attempts to suppress minority voting via prison-based gerrymandering.
Read MoreA radical archive arrives at Harvard
Harvard University acquired and is currently in the process of archiving educator and activist Angela Davis’ work. The archivists estimate the collection will be available in 2019.
Read MoreNew Study: Young Black Men Are Serving the Longest of Increasingly Longer Prison Sentences
Private prisons poised to reclaim days of slavery as they seek the mass incarceration of black bodies, for minimal to no crime at all. Imagine becoming intrapped in a system at earlier and earlier ages, for longer and longer periods of time.
Read MoreBresha Meadows Case Demonstrates How Domestic Survivors Are Punished for Defending Themselves
After nearly a year of being dragged through the criminal justice system, it appears there might finally be some good news in the Bresha Meadows case.
Read MoreNew Report Reveals Racial Bias In California’s Traffic Court System
A new report shows that California’s current policies for those unable to pay are disproportionately affecting Blacks and Latinos.
Read MoreCanadian lawyers are pushing courts to consider systemic racism
Defense lawyers in Ontario want to start pushing judges to consider how systemic racism may have contributed to the criminal activity of black offenders they are sentencing.
Read MoreHow One Massachusetts Jail Cut Its Population By 30 Percent In 6 Years
By now the problem is well documented: There are far too many Americans behind bars, and it costs society far too much, in every sense, to keep them there. Less discussed, however, is what can be done about it.
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