Communications

People Change: Why Clean Slate Matters

America has 5% of the world’s total population but 25% of the world’s prisoners. 65 million people have a criminal record in the United States.…

Real Experiences with Racial Profiling

Since early 2013, the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, in conjunction with our partners in the FADE coalition, has been sounding the alarm with city…

Texas Back in Court With U.S. in Minority Voting Fight

Texas Back in Court With U.S. in Minority Voting Fight By Laurel Brubaker Calkins Jul 14, 2014 4:24 PM ET for Bloomberg
Texas will continue…

Justice System Reform

Alternatives to School Suspension Are More Effective at Changing Student Behavior

In the 2012-13 school year, North Carolina students missed more than 750,000 school days due to suspension. Though suspension is the most widely used disciplinary…

Victory in Southernside SC Environmental Justice Case

After more than a year of fighting, the Southernside Environmental Justice Title VI came to an amicable conclusion. The Title VI complaint filed by SCSJ…

Private Prison Profiteers

Private Prisons: The Injustice League The two largest private prison providers in the U.S. each rake in tens of millions of dollars every year. How…

SCSJ Opposes Voter Suppression in Federal Court

Attorneys from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, the ACLU Voting Rights Project, and the ACLU of North Carolina appeared in federal court this week…

The Clean Slate program offers a true second chance

Our country was founded on principles of equal opportunity, basic human rights and justice. As a nation, we have overcome social problems using both individual…

Voting Rights and Mass Incarceration

With SCSJ attorneys in federal court hearings this week fighting against North Carolina’s voter suppression laws and the second Clean Slate Clinic in Durham quickly…

Clean Slate Clinic July 12, 2014

Clean Slate Clinic July 12, 2014 Do you have a criminal record?  Has your criminal record held you back from getting a job?  There will…

Mistrust in North Carolina Over Plan to Reduce Precincts

By RICHARD FAUSSET for  the New York Times, JULY 7, 2014 SHELBY, N.C. — When Alan Langley, a Republican member of the local elections board…

Criminal Justice Initiative in the News

A sampling of Criminal Justice Initiative media coverage from May – early July 2014.  
Daryl Atkinson receives White House “Champions of Change” award on…