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…
What is End Mass Incarceration Week? It is a week set aside to…
Justice System Reform
Featured Entries
How Can We Manifest Hope into Freedom?
The American Prospect Longform recently published an article entitled, Is There Hope for the Survivors of the War on Drugs? by Senior Writer Monica Potts. …
Clean Slate Clinic: The Full Rundown
On March 22nd, 2014, a coalition of community partners including the Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ), Durham Economic Resource Center (DERC), CAARE, Union Baptist…
Straight Talk's 1 Year Anniversary = Time to Celebrate!
The members of the Straight Talk Support Group invite you to their first Open House in celebration of their first anniversary!
Straight Talk is a…
Second chances for people with criminal records: SCSJ's Clean Slate Clinics
03/24/14: Thank you to everyone that helped make Saturday’s Clean Slate Clinic a huge success! We were able to screen over 350 community members, and…
Let My People Vote – the battle to end FL felon disenfranchisement
A recent protest in Florida brought new attention to an old problem: felon disenfranchisement. In many states, particularly in the South, people with felony convictions…
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…
FADE coalition work changing the narrative around racial profiling
SCSJ is a proud partner in the Durham FADE Coalition. FADE’s work around racial profiling and selective drug enforcement is changing the narrative of the…
Gender-Neutrality is a Myth: The Impact of Collateral Consequences on Women
Since Nixon’s formal declaration of ‘drugs‘ as Public Enemy #1 in 1971, women have been the fastest growing U.S prison population. The number of women…
SCSJ's Ian Mance interviewed on Durham racial profiling
DURHAM (WTVD) — The Durham Police Department has responded to accusations of racial profiling with a 45-page report that it says shows there is no…
What's your passion?
In the coming weeks, SCSJ will introduce you to our Spring semester interns. Their internships are sponsored by a generous gift from the Troan Family…
The dignity of work: helping people with criminal convictions find jobs
February 05, 2014 Columns » Citizen >>Write to the editor
“Have You Ever Been Convicted of a Crime?” prevents nonviolent offenders from re-entering society
by…