There will be no fixing public trust – or the law enforcement system – without ending the legal doctrine known as qualified immunity that protects government employees from being taken to task for assaults on your constitutional rights.
Ari Melber traces the origins of injustice in America's justice system by explaining everything from the racist Jim Crow framework to the bipartisan 1994 crime bill.
Activist and Florida Rights Restoration Coalition president is doing the work to make sure his state’s disenfranchised due to felony convictions, regain their power.
Lots of unanswered questions and quirky shifts as we move into a crisis-ridden era
Cutbacks in housing, healthcare, public transportation and economic opportunities and the criminalization of underground economy jobs, like sex work and the sale of illicit drugs, lead to increased incarceration and declining public safety.
Iowa was the last state in the country that permanently took voting rights away from citizens with past convictions unless the government approved individual rights restoration – which now applies only to people with felony homicide convictions.
Our CPAC ordinance is currently in the public safety committee in Chicago City Council and, if enacted, it will create a democratically-elected Council to oversee the Chicago Police Department.
While only 31% of Maryland residents are black, more than 70% of Maryland’s prison population is black, a percentage that is more than twice the national average. And about 80% of people serving 10 years or more in Maryland prisons are black.
Courts have grown more dependent on fees and fines for revenue. But enforcing them is expensive — and we don’t even know the true costs.
"If we stand together, we can eliminate private prisons and detention centers. No more profiteering from locking people up."
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