by Hayes Morehouse on Apr 21, 2009
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The conversation about incarceration is slowly changing: The Economist’s not-exactly-progressive columnist Lexington recently slammed the United States for a prison system that involves 1 in 31 adults and targets people of color. It’s not every day that a major international publication calls out the U.S. for its tendency… Read more
by Zachary Norris on Apr 15, 2009
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The way the U.S. has fought its “War on Drugs,” much like its “War on Terror”, has severely damaged our credibility as a promoter of human rights across the United States and around the world. The U.S. has sent billions in counter-narcotics aid to support ineffective and… Read more
by Zachary Norris on Apr 14, 2009
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In “Hellhole,” published in the March 30 issue of The New Yorker, Atul Gawande condemns the use of solitary confinement in U.S. prisons as a form of torture. If solitary confinement is torturous to adults, imagine the impact of prolonged isolation on young people whose brains are… Read more
by Jakada Imani on Apr 3, 2009
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This is a guest post by Jerome Ringo, the President of the National Apollo Alliance, one of our key allies in the movement for green-collar jobs.
Apollo Alliance Answers $789 billion Question
Today’s news is filled with images of an economy in crisis —… Read more