Mass Incarceration

Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks about The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 3)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Jim Crow, Bill Clinton, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Prison Industrial Complex, Ronald Reagan, Martin Luther King, Richard Nixon, Drug War, Edward Byrne Memorial Grant Program, Michelle Alexander, Mass Incarceration, Illegal Immigrants, Private Prisons, Obama Drug War, Drug Policy, Politics News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks About The War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 2)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Bill Clinton, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Prison Industrial Complex, Mass Incarceration, Obama War on Drugs, Ronald Reagan, Prison, Richard Nixon, Crack Cocaine, Michelle Alexander, The War on Drugs, Cocaine, Crack, Southern Strategy, War on Drugs Failure, Black Voices News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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Author and Legal Scholar, Michelle Alexander, Talks about the War on Drugs and Mass Incarceration (Part 1)

Kathleen Wells, J.D. | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Crack, Bill Clinton, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, Ronald Reagan, Cocaine, Richard Nixon, Michelle Alexander, Mass Incarceration, Prison, Obama War on Drugs, War on Drugs, War on Drugs Failure, The War on Drugs, Southern Strategy, Politics News
Kathleen Wells, J.D.

Author and legal scholar, Michelle Alexander, has written a powerful and highly acclaimed, well-researched book titled, "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness."

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Mass Incarceration as a Public Policy

Michael Santos | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Public Policy, Federal Prison, Mass Incarceration, Professor Jonathan Simon, Recidivism, Prison, James Q Wilson, Crime News
Michael Santos

The objective of building a massive prison system didn't include mechanisms that would encourage prisoners to work toward earning freedom, to redeem themselves, or to prepare for a return to society as law-abiding citizens.

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U.S. Incarceration Rate Is a National Disgrace

Nake M. Kamrany | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Prison Reform, US Prison System, Mass Incarceration, Incarceration, Incarceration Rates, US Prison Overcrowding, Crime News
Nake M. Kamrany

U.S. jails are overcrowded. By reallocating budgets to improving living conditions and education, crime rates will fall -- so will the stigma of U.S. incarceration and prosperity will rise.

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Of Religion, Reproduction And Racist Incarcerations

Rev. Dr. Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Religion and Politics, Mass Incarceration, Women's Issues, Women's Health, Reproductive Rights, African-American Issues, Race Relations, Religion News
Rev. Dr. Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder

If there is this 'movement' to put African American males behind bars, what is the point? What will such achieve?" Is it just a matter of supposedly keeping our streets safer? No.

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How The National Urban League Missed The Mark With It's State Of Black America Report

Leigh Owens | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Black Voices Life, The New Jim Crow, Mass Incarceration, Incarceration Rates, Black Voices News
Leigh Owens

This week the National Urban League released it's 2012 State of Black America Report and with it hosted a forum at Howard University to discuss the findings.

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If Prison Is the Disease, Not the Cure, How Do You Treat It?

Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Prison Reform, Prison as Disease, Mass Incarceration, Ernest Drucker, Prisons, Prison, Incarceration Rates, Crime News
Dan Froomkin

As the economic and social costs of mass incarceration mount, many criminal justice professionals and officials are now calling on the U.S. to abandon these policies and replace them with more constructive approaches.

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The Hurtful Legacy of Herman Cain's "Suspended," "Brother From Another Mother" Presidential Campaign

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Robert C. Smith, Mass Incarceration, Timothy McVeigh, Ann Coulter, Terrorism, Right-Wing, White Supremacy, GOP Base, Extremist, Conservatism, High Tech Lynching, High Tech Rape, Clarence Thomas, Colorblindess, Tim Wise, South, Driving While Black, Black Men, Koch Brothers, Conservatives, Ron Robinson, Christian Conservatives, Herman Cain, Pew Research Study, Racism, White Conservatives, Tea Party, Republicans, Hannity, Video, Black Voices News
Ronald B. Robinson

For a sustained period, Cain was the GOP candidate who most successfully stimulated the nostalgia for the good ole days of the "great communicator," Ronald Reagan, among "the base."

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Toward an Industry of Peace

Elena Quintana | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Prison Reform, Mass Incarceration, Peace, Recidivism, Prison Industrial Complex, Prison Workers, Department of Corrections, Correctional Facility, Decreasing-Recidivism, Chicago News
Elena Quintana

When I was growing up I learned that, although not perfect, the United States had the "best justice system in the world." That bill of goods can not even be faintly passed off with a straight face to today's schoolchildren.

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NYC Wins Award for the Most Marijuana Arrests in the World

Jesse Levine | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: East New York, Young People, Upper East Side, Drug Policy Alliance, Nyc, Pot Arrests, Michael Bloomberg, City Council, Michelle Alexander, Illegal Searches, Marijuana Possession, Jim Crow, Black and Latino, Communities of Color, Melissa Mark-Viverito, Award, Mass Incarceration, Racism, Marijuana Arrests, Stop-Fisk, New York News
Jesse Levine

Community leaders, drug policy reform advocates and two members of the City Council gave a satirical award to Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Wednesday for making New York City the "Marijuana Arrest Capitol Of The World."

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Michelle Alexander on the Criminal (In)Justice System

Sarah Stern | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Racial Politics, Criminal Justice, War on Drugs, Mass Incarceration, Politics News
Sarah Stern

The U.S. has an extraordinarily high incarceration rate, with 1 out of every 31 adults incarcerated, on parole or on probation. In some states, like Georgia, that rate is 1 in 13.

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Michelle Alexander And Dr. Vincent Harding Visit Manual High School

Posted 05.25.2011

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"How many of you know someone who has been killed in gang violence?" Denver teacher and self-awareness coach Ra Maat asks an auditorium half-filled wi...

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Lock-up: What Behind the Mass Incarceration Across the Nation?

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crimes, Criminal Law, Felony, Jim Crow, Jim Crow Laws, Michelle Alexander, Racial Caste System, Racialized Social Control, Social Control, The New Jim Crow, War on Drugs, Misdemeanors, Mass Incarceration, Mass-Incarceration-and-Colorblindness, Colorblindness, Politics News
Arlene M. Roberts

Where have all the black men gone? Michelle Alexander, in her recently released book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, answers the question head on.

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Mass Incarceration: A Destroyer of People of Color and Their Communities

Jamaal Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whites, Latinos, The Sentencing Project, Minnesota, Policy Change, Obama Administration, Drugs, Gil Kerlikowske, Reentry, Criminal Justice, Blacks, Native Americans, Mass Incarceration, Prisons, Racial Disparities, Rebuild Resources, War on Drugs, Politics News
Jamaal Bell

Instead of having our Drug Czar focus on addiction recovery and prevention programs, how about changing the policy of our racialized criminal justice system?

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