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Alabama is farming out incarcerated people to work at hundreds of companies, including McDonald’s & Wendy’s
Most prisons have no real plan for how to deal with the kind of misery climate change inflicts—and will inflict—on incarcerated people.
One of the most important battles of criminal justice today should be changing incarcerated laborers’ classification to legal workers. This would provide the same rights and benefits as non-inmate labor and allow prisoners to earn a “livable wage."
Two bills, currently under consideration in Tennessee, could change sentencing rules that keep many inside prisons for too long.
“We don’t look at the crime. We are looking at predetention when you have not been convicted of a crime. We didn’t make the system. The system says, ‘You are innocent until proven guilty.’”
Reform advocates condemn raft of measures expected to pass under new far-right governor
The African American perfectionists offered “faith” instead of “hope”—emphasizing the struggle to realize a vision of justice rather than passive assurance that it would prevail.
The 2018 Farm Bill okayed the production of hemp, removed it from the DEA's list of Controlled Substances and changed the marijuana landscape — that doesn’t erase criminalization’s disastrous impact on the working class.
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