Hillary Clinton has called, tepidly, for an end to mass incarceration, in vague terms, without policy details: “There is something profoundly wrong when African-American men…
Criminal justice
The hosts Sam, Lisa, and Lamont go deeper into the IRP6 case. They discuss questions that went unanswered during and after the trial. Questions that,…
America’s First Black President is a traitor to his race and also to justice. Obama has permitted the corrupt US Department of Justice (sic), over…
Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said Tuesday that he will introduce legislation to abolish private prisons, one piece of his comprehensive racial justice…
The large transportation funding bill moving through the Senate would end Social Security benefits for 200,000 people who have an outstanding felony arrest warrant—but have…
If you thought slavery was outlawed in America, you would be wrong. The 13th amendment to the Constitution states that [3] "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as…
Our national conversation on race and crime is based on a fiction. It is the fiction that the organs of internal security, especially the judiciary…
Three prisoners—Melvin Ray, James Pleasant and Robert Earl Council—who led work stoppages in Alabama prisons in January 2014 as part of the Free Alabama Movementhave spent…
This article is the first in a series exploring the effects that unconscious racial biases have on the criminal justice system in the United States.…
Jail is not supposed to be where you put the mentally ill or those too poor to pay bail. Nor is it supposed to be…