Prisons
More rehabilitation, less incarceration: How about votes for inmates?
October 16, 2019They know better than most that while there are some truly violent people that deserve incarceration, the vast majority need a hand up, not another shackle of more debt, a bad record, a bleaker future.
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San Jose churches and synagogues get set to fight racist mass incarceration
September 23, 2019The workshop was led by Sophia Jackson, a candidate for ordination as a minister who knows the criminal "justice" system inside out—literally. She was incarcerated for eight years.
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Prison documentary Stateville Calling: What if rehabilitation was a human right?
September 4, 2019The hour-long documentary follows the current battle to pass legislation reinstating parole in Illinois, which the state hasn’t had since 1978.
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Voting rights for prisoners and the gasp heard ’round the world
May 7, 2019Voter suppression targeting African Americans and people of color is exclusively a Republican agenda, right? Not so fast.
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Rise in suicide attempts in Texas prisons alarms advocates
April 12, 2019Prisoner rights advocates point to the rise in suicide attempts in Texas prisons as part of a national trend in which people behind bars increasingly have serious mental health needs that are not being addressed inside...
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