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March 4, 2014

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 struggle for real social justice when I became aware of how connected you and I are; when injustice happening ‘somewhere else’ felt like it was unfolding right beside me–inside […]

Category iconHuman Rights,  Recent News Tag iconAdé Oni,  Audre Lorde,  intern,  Internship,  intersectional,  Mass Incarceration,  public health,  social justice,  transformative,  Troan

February 6, 2014

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 Bob Geary @rjgeary In his job as a staff attorney with the Durham-based Southern Coalition for Social Justice, Daryl Atkinson fields calls from men and women who can’t get a […]

Category iconCommunity Organizing,  Criminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconBan the Box,  Bob Geary,  Clean Slate,  Collateral Consequences,  Daryl Atkinson,  IndyWeek,  Mass Incarceration,  Moral March,  nonviolent offenders,  re-entry

February 4, 2014

Crime does pay, but for whom?

Source: Online-Paralegal-Degree.org There are 2.3 million people living behind bars in the United States ● The US prison system costs the federal government $55 billion every year Prison VS. Jail ● Jails are locally-operated facilities that hold inmates for a short period of time ● Prisons are long-term facilities run by the state or federal […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconCriminal Justice,  for-profit prisons,  jail,  law-crime taxes,  Mass Incarceration,  minimum occupancy levels,  New Jim Crow,  prison,  private prisons

January 18, 2014

Forty one years is long enough: Incarceration of Political Prisoners

By Crystal M. Hayes Repost from KultureKritic.com My father, Robert Seth Hayes, is one of the longest held political prisoners in the United States. He has been an inmate of the New York State Correctional system since 1973. He was a member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army. Forty one years is […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Human Rights,  Recent News Tag iconMass Incarceration,  Parole,  prison,  racial equity

January 13, 2014

Michelle Alexander: Why Police Lie Under Oath

Why Police Lie Under Oath (via http://amicuscuria.com) By Michelle Alexander THOUSANDS of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury’s believing their word over a police officer’s are slim to none. As a juror, whom are you likely to believe…

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconcriminal justice reform,  jury,  Mass Incarceration,  michelle alexander,  New Jim Crow,  Police,  Racial Profiling

December 23, 2013

Facts and figures on incarceration in America

Facts and Figures on Incarceration in America (via Moyers & Company) Over the last four decades, America’s prison population has increased dramatically. This tremendous growth disproportionately affects minorities, and has been exacerbated by the war on drugs. Mass incarceration has become a form of legalized discrimination…

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News,  Uncategorized,  Voting Rights Tag iconFelon Disenfranchisement,  Mass Incarceration,  Moyers & Co.,  New Jim Crow,  Racial Profiling,  Uncategorized

December 6, 2013

Honoring Nelson Mandela

Honoring Nelson Mandela by Peter Wagner, December 5, 2013  (This is a repost from the Prison Policy Initiative) Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) was a South African freedom fighter and one of the longest held political prisoners in the world. He led the fight to abolish Apartheid and was elected President in the first multi-racial election in […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Human Rights,  Recent News Tag iconCriminal Justice,  criminal justice reform,  inmate,  jail,  Mass Incarceration,  Nelson Mandela,  prison

October 28, 2013

What we learned at the International Drug Policy Reform Conference

The Southern Coalition for Social Justice was well represented this week at the International Drug Policy Conference, held this year in Colorado, a state on the vanguard of drug policy reform.  SCSJ Staff Attorney Daryl Atkinson, Fellow Jeremy Collins, and Soros Justice Attorney-Fellow Ian A. Mance all made the trip to Denver to learn from […]

Category iconCriminal Justice,  Recent News Tag iconCriminal Justice,  Daryl Atkinson,  Drug Policy,  Drug War,  Ian Mance,  Jeremy Collins,  marijuana reform,  Mass Incarceration,  reform,  War on Drugs

September 24, 2013

Durham Screening of Social Justice Documentary The House I Live In

Come join us for dinner, an important social justice film, and a panel discussion on mass incarceration. ST. LUKE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH And DURHAM CONGREGATIONS IN ACTION present a showing of THE HOUSE I LIVE IN with a Community Panel on Drug Law Enforcement in Durham TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2013 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm   […]

Category iconCriminal Justice Tag iconDrug Policy,  Mass Incarceration,  War on Drugs

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NOW: 17-year #ncga veteran Rep. @priceyharrison — who serves on House elex cmte and has sponsored dozens of elex-related bills — testifies re: the voter ID amendment legislation's strange trajectory to passage. “It was interesting.” Watch: bit.ly/3dyQEYW #NCVoterIDtrial

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REMINDER: Join @nc_cred & @LawyersComm on tomorrow's #webinar from 7-8PM ET to review the law & how communities can continue advocating for the removal of monuments and other iconography to white supremacy from all court spaces. Learn more and register: bit.ly/2R9llLK

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ICYMI: Research presented by Dr. Ariel White, an expert in how voter ID policies impact behavior, supported #NCvoterIDtrial testimony of disenfranchised voters. Bias aside, she said ways county poll workers in NC are trained to enforce these complicated laws can lead to problems. pic.twitter.com/vM3o…

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"plaintiffs argue the newer law still fits into the same pattern of voter suppression laws from the past. 'Preventing fraud was one of the reasons given for imposing a literacy test,' testified James Leloudis, a professor of history at UNC wunc.org/politics/20… #NCvoterIDtrial

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Mr. Kearney has been a registered voter for 50+ years. Poll workers knew him by name, and still voter ID kept him from voting in 2016. This is why we’ve taken NC’s latest voter ID law to court. Watch as the #NCVoterIDtrial continues tomorrow: youtube.com/channel/… pic.twitter.com/vTWA…

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