By Michele Goodwin | Originally Published at Huffington Post. July 17, 2015 11:17 am EDT Updated: July 17, 2015 11:59 am EDT | Photographic Credit; Daniel Acker/Bloomberg. Getty Images Female incarceration is invisible in the U.S., veiled in the broader realities of mass incarceration, hidden and often [...]
By Heather Ann Thompson | Originally Published at Huffington Post. April 28, 2015 2:18 PM EDT Updated: April 28, 2015 2:59 PM EDT | Photographic Credit; Unknown Source/Social Media As most Americans were sitting down to dinner Monday night, Maryland's Governor Larry Hogan was declaring a state [...]
Kayleb Moon-Robinson was 11 years old last fall when charges — criminal charges — began piling up at school. Diagnosed as autistic, Kayleb was being scolded for misbehavior one day and kicked a trash can at Linkhorne Middle School in Lynchburg, Virginia, in the Blue [...]
3 Arrested at Die-In at Rahm Emanuel’s Office By Yana Kunichoff | Originally Published at In These Times. March 24, 2015 Protesters demand reforms to alleged abuses in Chicago’s criminal justice system, including a discriminatory “stop-and-frisk” program and secret interrogation site. A chaotic scene played out on [...]
By Harold Jordan | Originally Published at American Civil Liberties [ACLU] of Pennsylvania. March 20, 2015 1:00 PM | Photographic Credit; Officer Sgt. Mark Spain joins students in the lunch room during the day at the Watervliet, N.Y. Elementary School (Skip Dickstein/Times Union) As talk of law [...]
Introductory Essay By Betsy L. Angert | Photographic Credit; Juvenile Justice Life on the Island — Rikers. Five Corporations You've Never Heard of Are Making Millions From Mass Incarceration — It begins in our schools. You may have heard the word. Schools have become a Pipeline-To-Prison, or [...]
By Heather Ann Thompson | Originally Published at Huffington Post. September 8, 2014 5:59 AM EDT It has taken a long time, far too long, but politicians seem finally to have realized how catastrophically expensive it is for the United States to lock up more people than [...]
By Nell Bernstein | Originally Published at Open Society. August 8, 2014 | Photographic Credit; Rolando prays alone in his cell. The 15-year-old was given 24 hours of cell confinement as punishment for "failure to comply"—in this case for disobeying staff orders to make his bed in [...]
By Candice Bernd | Originally Published at Truthout July 2, 2014 10:12 | Photographic Credit; Yuri Arcurs (Shutterstock) Nicole Smith is terrified that her rapist, a former police officer, is up for parole soon and could be released from prison, possibly as early as September 2015. Smith's [...]
