How can we disrupt and end child sexual abuse without turning to police and a racist prison industrial complex that disproportionately criminalizes, arrests and imprisons Black and Indigenous people...
"If we stand together, we can eliminate private prisons and detention centers. No more profiteering from locking people up."
Sheriffs’ Departments are rife with scandal. And Sheriffs know the feds are often the only ones who can stop the abuse, which is why so many California sheriffs prioritize the immigration-related whims of federal authorities over fealty to state law.
A public memorial is a reminder that the present is traceable to a past when people tortured by law enforcement in this country fought to make their experiences known and part of official history—and won.
But the persistence of racially biased policing means that unless American policing reckons with its racist roots, it is likely to keep repeating mistakes of the past.
In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.
The modest sentence reductions in the bill are so narrow that veteran reform advocates say the long-term, harmful provisions of the legislation — including its reliance on racist risk assessment mechanisms and expansion of electronic monitoring...
"There is a silent suffering around the country, but people need to know they're not alone."
Louisiana and Oregon are the only states that permit juries to convict defendants without unanimous agreement.
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