Toward Abolition
Whoever you are, wherever you are, whether you are a student, an academic, a worker, a person involved in your church, an artist... there are always ways to gear your work towards progressive, radical transformation.
~Angela Davis
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September182012
More on Restorative Justice
The focus is on punishment: round them up! Get those {insert derogatory word} off the streets. But where is the healing in that? For the survivors? For the offenders? For the community?
September122012
Are we pushing kids into the school-to-prison pipeline with suspensions?
In 2010, U.S. schools suspended more than 3 million students in kindergarten through 12th grade. And many of those students were minorities and children with disabilities, according to a new analysis of data from the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
September52012
Back to School and the Prison Pipeline
As the school year begins, so does the Dignity in Schools and Opportunity to Learn Campaigns’ “Solutions Not Suspensions” initiative to combat the dramatic racial disparities in school punishments.
2PM
Truth About Prison Phones
As it stands today, the phone system within state prisons and immigration detention centers exploits one of the most vulnerable populations in the U.S. today.
1PM
“Are our children being pushed into prison?”
1PM
It's Time to Discuss Criminal Justice Reform
Today, however, as states struggle with budget shortfalls of historic proportions, a growing number of them are rethinking their decades-long obsession with incarceration. For the first time in forty years,conservative leaders and think tanks are talking about taking smarter, rather than tougher, approaches to crime, and touting reform legislation that promotes alternatives to incarceration and expansion of parole eligibility for a host of offenses.
September42012
“Actress Alexis Lee crumples to the floor. The jump isn’t real, the dress is a costume, the play is fiction, at least at the moment. But Mona Lisa and Alexis aren’t so different. At 17, Alexis has been bullied and teased, been made to feel ugly, like she’s nothing. She moved to escape terrible situations, only to be delivered into worse circumstances. She’s got scars from where she cut herself, memories from when she tried to kill herself.”
From detention cells to the stage
August232012
Run-on Sentence.
An unforgiving and broken system is forcing sex offenders further to the fringes of society — and that’s dangerous for all of us. Read the story here.
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