Anti-Shackling: Reproductive Rights Behind Bars
As prison abolitionists work towards a world without prisons, public health practitioners and prison reformers must work alongside them to expose and mitigate the severe…
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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…
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 –…
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.
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Who's eligible for the ACA enrollment extension?
March 31, 2014 was the last day of open enrollment for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare. But enrollment…
Brutality of the Immigration Detention System
Oscar Quintero, Currently Detained Inside Etowah County Detention Center, Speaks Up on the Brutality of the Immigration Detention System
Immigrant Rights Groups Block Entrance to…
Truth: 'No One Is Disposable'
Recently, Reina Gossett and Dean Spade of Sylvia Rivera Law Project came together to co-facilitate a lively and brilliant online conversation about how a prison…
Detention quotas are bad business
As the immigrant rights movement grows stronger, and as communities come together in defense of justice and dignity for all immigrants, we have the power…
SCSJ in the community: Edgecomb County wills clinic
A basic tenet of SCSJ’s mission is that all people deserve access to quality legal services, regardless of race or socio-economic status. In furtherance of…
Spring Intern Spotlight: Adé Oni
It’s hard to ignore injustice when it runs around exposed, loud (at times), and reckless always. I came to consider myself a part of the…
Changes to unemployment insurance harm jobless workers and economy
Cuts to unemployment insurance in North Carolina have made it harder for jobless workers to support their families and make ends meet in an economy…
NC Immigrant Students Seek the Promise of Public Education
Access to public education should be available to all children, regardless of where they were born. This seems like a simple idea – why would…