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Helping Youth Honor Sexual Assault Awareness Month

April is so many things to so many people: the beginning of Spring. A chance to honor American Poetry Month. A chance to observe End…

Justice System Reform

Selina Garcia: Multi-System Failure

At 7:30 a.m. on a Friday morning, I began to receive a flurry of text messages from Selina, a 17-year-old high school student in Wake…

From the daughter of a prisoner

For the final entry in our End Mass Incarceration Week blog series, SCSJ intern Nadiah Porter gives us an intimate look into her life growing…

Shocking police overreach haunts Southern city: Racial profiling, quotas and secret “conviction bonuses”

Shocking police overreach haunts Southern city: Racial profiling, quotas and secret “conviction bonuses”   How a federal grant incentivized a police department to go nuts…

Mass Incarceration & People of Color

Mass Incarceration & People of Color One in every 31 Americans is on probation, on parole, in jail or in prison. Distressingly, according to the…

Mass Incarceration of Juveniles: does putting children in jail solve anything?

Does putting children in jail solve anything? During a single year, an estimated 2.1 million youth under the age of 18 are arrested in the…

Isolation Kills: The Perils of Solitary Confinement

As public health and social justice practitioners, it seems obvious that putting someone in a cage – with no human contact or sensory stimulation –…

Appeal opposes Wake School Board Redistricting Plan

Appeal Opposes Wake County School Board Redistricting Plan
FOR IMMEDIATE  RELEASE
Contact: Anita Earls, anita@scsj.org, (919) 323-3380 x 115
WAKE COUNTY, NC – Today the…

End Mass Incarceration: Roundup of Recent Developments

As part of SCSJ’s End Mass Incarceration Week observance, we are posting daily blogs about various issues affecting incarcerated people. This post by SCSJ macro…

U.S. Immigrant Detention Centers: # NotOneMore

This post is part of SCSJ’s End Mass Incarceration Week series. It focuses on immigrant detention facilities in the U.S.  NotOneMore Deportation.

The United States…

End Mass Incarceration Week

From April 5-13, 2014, SCSJ will be honoring End Mass Incarceration Week.
What is End Mass Incarceration Week? It is a week set aside to…

Attorney: NC photo ID wouldn't stop 2-state voting

Attorney: NC photo ID wouldn’t stop 2-state voting By GARY D. ROBERTSON Associated Press April 3, 2014
RALEIGH, N.C. — Data suggesting potential voter fraud…