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Mass Incarceration

July 5, 2016

VA NAACP asks VA Supreme Court to uphold return of voting rights to people with prior felony convictions

Richmond, VA. —The Virginia State Conference of the NAACP filed a brief on Monday, June 27, 2016 in the Virginia Supreme Court in support of Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s executive order restoring voting rights to more than 200,000 Virginians with previous felony convictions. Gov. McAuliffe’s Order for the Restoration of Rights, issued April 22, 2016, represents […]

Category iconRecent News,  Voting Rights Tag iconDisenfranchised voter,  Mass Incarceration,  voter,  voter suppression,  Votes not counted,  voting rights

November 21, 2014

The Marshall Project sheds new light on the U.S. criminal justice system

An important new criminal justice resource has just come online: The Marshall Project, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization devoted to criminal justice reform. The Marshall Project is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization founded on two simple ideas. In their own words: 1) There is a pressing national need for high-quality journalism about the American criminal […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconCriminal Justice,  Marshall Project,  Mass Incarceration

October 17, 2014

Left of Black: Mass Incarceration, Voting Rights & State Sanctioned Violence

Left of Black host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Daryl Atkinson, Senior Staff Attorney at the Southern Coalition for Social Justice in North Carolina.  In a conversation about mass incarceration, the erosion of voting rights and State sanctioned violence Aktinson asserts that “the State sanctioned violence that we saw […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconDaryl Atkinson,  Duke University,  Ferguson,  John Hope Franklin Center,  Left of Black,  Mark Anthony Neal,  Mass Incarceration,  State Sanctioned Violence,  voting rights

October 7, 2014

Why I support the 'Final Words' book project

Final Words: 517 executed prisoners of Texas Death Row share their last words. It’s time to listen! This is not a typical SCSJ blog post. I am speaking to you as one person to another, not in my professional capacity as an attorney. I hope you will bear with me. -Shoshannah Sayers, Deputy Director, SCSJ […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconDeath Row,  Final Words,  Mass Incarceration,  Shoshannah Sayers

August 30, 2014

Prisons and police culture gone rogue

This post originally appeared in the St Louis American By Christi Griffin There are few who did not rise to the occasion, who did not donate, plan or pray. There are few who did not view the senseless and brutal shooting of Michael Brown as a reflection of the lack of value placed on the […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconChristi Griffin,  Mass Incarceration,  police culture

July 12, 2014

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 do they make their money, and what agreements are in place to protect their profits? Guaranteed Occupancy When a prison company approaches a state or city to either build or […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconMass Incarceration,  prison profiteers,  private prisons

July 9, 2014

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 approaching, the disenfranchisement of the justice-involved population is a central topic for SCSJ this week. Voting Rights and Mass Incarceration at the National Level According to The Sentencing Project, there […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News,  Voting Rights Tag iconClean Slate,  Felon Disenfranchisement,  Mass Incarceration,  voting rights,  Xan McKnight

June 18, 2014

The Unvarnished Truth about the Prison Family Journey

The Unvarnished Truth about the Prison Family Journey The first boldly honest resource for those affected by mass incarceration in the U.S. is stimulating powerful discussion. The United States is the largest jailer in the world. With just 5% of the world’s population, the U.S. incarcerates 25% of the world’s prisoners. The human and financial […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconMass Incarceration,  prison,  prison families,  The Unvarnished Truth about the Prison Family Journey

June 2, 2014

Maya Angelou's legacy: stories that make us whole

Dr. Maya Angelou is famous for embracing and sharing all of her life experiences – the good, the bad, and the horrifying. Her philosophy was that all experiences are important parts of making a complete human being. In that vein, SCSJ offers you the poetry of formerly incarcerated people and their families. Because while these […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconformerly incarcerated,  jail,  Mass Incarceration,  Maya Angelou,  poetry,  prison poetry

May 7, 2014

FICPM on the vanguard of ending mass incarceration

SCSJ Criminal Justice Reform attorney Daryl Atkinson is a steering committee member of the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Movement (FICPM). In the following radio piece from PRX, Daryl and his colleagues speak truth to power on issues relating to ending mass incarceration in the United States. A half-century since the apex of the Civil […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconChris Moore-Backman,  Daryl Atkinson,  FICPM,  Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People's Movement,  Mass Incarceration,  michelle alexander,  New Jim Crow,  PRX,  structural racism

April 18, 2014

UNC journalism students explore race class and education in Durham, NC

There is no direct means by which a student becomes a dropout, unemployed or a criminal; there is no single decision, policy or process directly responsible for the transformation. But certain characteristics tend to tip the scales toward either future success or future failure. The intersection of poverty and race can be a statistically dangerous […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconFault Lines,  Mass Incarceration,  poverty,  race class and education,  school to prison pipeline,  UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communications

April 9, 2014

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 Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in three African-American men can expect to be incarcerated at some point. These statistics reflect systemic problems in the U.S. justice system and the punitive […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconMass Incarceration,  New Jim Crow,  people of color

April 8, 2014

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 United States[1].       When we think of mass incarceration, we cannot just think of adults. Countless boys and girls are funneled from schools and neighborhoods to the juvenile justice system […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconchildren in jail,  Criminal Justice,  end mass incarceration week,  juvenile justice,  Mass Incarceration,  Oprah Keyes

April 6, 2014

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 social work intern Meredith McMonigle examines policy trends in mass incarceration. Let’s look at recent developments on two fronts—policy, and in the arts and media, which may contribute to the […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconend mass incarceration week,  Holder,  Mass Incarceration,  Meredith McMonigle,  Obama,  prison policy

April 5, 2014

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 is deporting more immigrants today than at any point in our history. Many of those deported spend at least some time in an immigrant detention center, often a for-profit prison. […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Human Rights,  Recent News Tag iconAFSC,  deportation,  end mass incarceration week,  Immigrant detention,  Mass Incarceration,  prison industrial complex,  private prisons

April 4, 2014

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 fully consider the consequences of America’s over-reliance on mass incarceration. Why is this relevant? Over the last 30 years, the US has experienced an explosion in the number of people […]

Category iconCommunity Organizing,  Criminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconcommunity listening,  end mass incarceration week,  Mass Incarceration,  poetry

March 24, 2014

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 Etowah County Detention Center Oscar Quintero, currently detained at one of the worst immigrant detention centers in the country, Etowah County Detention Center in Gadsden, Alabama joins the thousands of […]

Category iconHuman Rights,  Recent News Tag icondetention,  Human Rights,  Immigrants' Rights,  Mass Incarceration,  Racial Profiling

March 20, 2014

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 abolition framework informs queer and trans justice movements. This conversation arrives at a critical time where bodies that don’t fit into an established social norm are being shoved behind bars […]

Category iconCommunity Organizing,  Criminal Justice,  Human Rights,  Recent News Tag iconAdé Oni,  Human Rights,  Mass Incarceration,  prison,  prison abolition,  Sylvia Rivera Law Project,  Trans people

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Representatives for the NAACP spoke to the board, citing statistics from SCSJ, which found that while only 18% of the student body are Black students, 59% of suspensions during the 2018-2019 school year were of Black students. Via @wectnews bit.ly/3qfMoke

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The #ForthePeopleAct, also called H.R. 1, would expand opportunities to #votebymail, require states to establish electronic voter registration, and would make Election Day a federal holiday. Via @thehill: bit.ly/3b74tg2

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“Poverty, lack of transportation, lack of access to flexible work and living wages is why out of precinct voting is important and why ballot collection, particularly on indigenous lands is so important.” @AllisonJRiggs bit.ly/3bQUj2p via @guardian #SCOTUS #BrnovichvDNC

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