Legalizing Tyranny by Chris Hedges
The law as an instrument of morality at the state and federal levels has been deformed into an instrument of racialized social control.
James Kilgore | Mass Incarceration in the Cornfields: Shattered Families and Racial Profiling in Small-Town America
Taylor believes the absence of her father made a huge difference. If he had been around, she observed, "the household would have been more structured ... I don't think my brother and sister would have gotten into trouble."
James Kilgore | Mass Incarceration in the Cornfields: Shattered Families and Racial Profiling in Small-Town America
Taylor believes the absence of her father made a huge difference. If he had been around, she observed, "the household would have been more structured ... I don't think my brother and sister would have gotten into trouble."
The State of the Current Prison System: in the news
These articles address the state of the current prison system in the United States taking on the concepts of innocence vs. a rigged system in the courts and likening the labor of prisoners to an American Slave System, the school-to-prison system, corporate-owned prisons for profit, and more.
John Kiriakou: The Pope Goes to Prison in America
Kiriakou: The United States is not the only country in the world with private, for-profit prisons, although it certainly has the most, and it has the worst.
2,000 Cases in Baltimore Could Be Overturned Because of Unlawful Police and Prosecutor Collusion
From the article: “It shocks the conscience that a police commissioner and an elected State’s Attorney would conspire to commit obstruction of justice unless the FBI told them they could disclose.”
Matt Taibbi: Sandra Bland Was Murdered
Taibbi: After Ferguson, it was the same thing. Editorials insisted that the solution to the brutality problem lay in "less criminality within the black community." The officer who shot Michael Brown, Darren Wilson – the same guy who called Brown a "demon" – insisted that Brown would still be alive "if he'd just followed orders."
Four recent articles about prisons and the prison industrial complex
As Paul Wright, founder and editor of Prison Legal News, told Truthout, "Securus and their government business partners have perfected the science of monetizing human contact and ruthlessly exploiting people's love and desire for family communication to further engorge the coffers of their hedge-fund owners."
Women Against Military Madness Newsletter | Spring I 2015
Volume 33 Number 1 Mary Beaudoin, Editor Spring I 2015 Korea: Women Walk for Peace across the De-Militarized Zone By Christine More
The Nation: Why #BlackLivesMatter Actions Aren’t Stopping
“There are so many people out protesting police violence who are then met with police violence,” Nelson said. “If they didn’t understand how a Mike Brown or an Eric Garner could happen, they understand after a night of protest how a police interaction can become very violent and even deadly.” Dani McClain TheNation.com December 16, More
▶ Bill Moyers: Michelle Alexander | Locked Out of America
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/82266062] December 20, 2013 Moyers & Company Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander tells Bill about an emerging movement that aims to end mass incarceration and its impact on America. After civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander published her book The New Jim Crow in 2010 on our dehumanizing system of incarceration, she ignited a national conversation about justice in More
▶ Bill Moyers: Michelle Alexander | Locked Out of America
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/82266062] December 20, 2013 Moyers & Company Lawyer and activist Michelle Alexander tells Bill about an emerging movement that aims to end mass incarceration and its impact on America. After civil rights lawyer Michelle Alexander published her book The New Jim Crow in 2010 on our dehumanizing system of incarceration, she ignited a national conversation about justice in More