- Senate votes to kick formerly incarcerated off food benefits, ratcheting up 40 years of the PIC and war on the poor http://t.co/tReRcJ4UgN
- Remember the hysteria around Crack Babies in the 1980s? Largely untrue, it became a runaway myth to justify drug war https://t.co/gNvJpWqB6b
- Photos of Children From Around the World With Their Most Prized Possessions (play, commodities, inequality, gender) http://t.co/75Fu7UIr6D
- RT @prisonculture: Why should poor black & brown people in this city trust the SAME GANG that has been screwing them for YEARS in this city?
- RT @gregrgoodman: . @ChiStudentsOrg: #CPS has failed us yet again. We are not satisfied. We are being robbed #CPSclosings http://t.co/36KMz…
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Wrongful Conviction and Poverty is like Peanut Butter and Jelly
By Mark A. Clements I had the opportunity of meeting Bryan Stevenson at Northwestern University School of Law as he explained his possible hearing before the United States Supreme Court in the Graham case, which rendered sentencing kids to natural … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Alvarez, Anthony Lewis, Area 2, Bill Moyers, Bryan Stevenson, California, Chicago police, CPD, criminal justice, Daniel Taylor Illinois, Gideon, inequality, Jon Burge, Louis Taylor, Mark Clements, Martin Clancy, mass incarceration, Mississippi pathologist, Oily Thomas, poverty, prison sentencing, prison-industrial complex, public defenders, Rampart Scandal, right to council, Rodney Reed, Rodney Reed Texas, Sara Kruzan, SCOTUS, Stanley Wrice, Steven Hayne, Supreme Court, Tim O’Brien, Tyrone Hood, War on Drugs
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Three murders at Menard, Illinois Correctional Center in Less than 2 Months
By Mark A. Clements One must start to wonder what’s going on at the Menard Correctional Center located downstate in Southern Illinois. There have been three murders to occur individually within the past two months. Two of the deaths occurred … Continue reading
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Tagged IDOC, Illinois Department of Corrections, Illinois Prison Director S.A. Godinez, menard correctional center, menard prison, prison abolition, prison discipline, prison overcrowding, prison racism, prison reform, prison violence, prison-industrial complex, segregation unit, Statesville, Stateville, Third Inmate Dies At Menard Correctional Center
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Does Stop-and-Frisk Create More Crime?
Stop-and-frisk proponents argue that the aggressive police tactic is necessary for “crime prevention.” But rather than deterring crime, do aggressive policing tactics like stop-and-frisk paradoxically generate crime by creating the conditions in which “criminals” … Continue reading
New NYPD Tapes Reveal Racism behind Stop-and-Frisk
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s concentrated regime of stop-and-frisk received international attention this week as a landmark class-action federal civil rights lawsuit challenging the draconian police tactic got underway. One of the more important pieces of evidence revealed in … Continue reading
One year on, 1 a.m. Vigil Marks the Struggle for Justice, Celebrates the Life of Rekia Boyd
CHICAGO—Undeterred by subfreezing temperatures, 25 family members, friends, and activists held a candlelight vigil at 1 a.m. this morning to commemorate the life of twenty-two year old Rekia Boyd and demand that her murderer be brought to justice. The Nite … Continue reading
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Tagged Antonio Cross, Antonio Cross Chicago, Chicago Crime, Chicago News, Chicago police, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Police Involved Shootings, Chicago Shootings, Chicago Street Violence, Independent Police Review Authority, IPRA, Michael Chandler, police accountability, Police Brutality, Police Crime, Rekia Boyd, Rekia Boyd Chicago, Rekia Boyd Shot
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NYPD Detectives Who Killed Kimani Gray Have Rap Sheets
The two NYPD plainclothes detectives who shot and killed Kimani Gray in Brooklyn on March 9 have a documented history of lawsuits related to the use of extrajudicial violence and other civil rights abuses, according to reports by several news … Continue reading
The NYPD Declares Martial Law in Brooklyn
On the heels of three nights of protests over the police slaying of 16 year old Kimani Gray, the NYPD has turned the East Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn into a State of Exception, claiming emergency powers to suspend the constitutional … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn, East Flatbush, Kimani Gray, NYPD, police accountability, Police Brutality, Police Crime, Shantel Davis
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Call to a 2nd People’s Hearing on Police Crimes
Saturday, February 23 11 am – 5 pm University of Chicago Ida Noyes Hall 1212 E 59th St By the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression Organizing Committee to Stop Police Crimes, and the Human … Continue reading
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Silencing the Chicago “Code of Silence”
CHICAGO—In an unanticipated move, the City of Chicago took tangible legal steps in federal court this week to silence the Chicago Police Department’s “code of silence.” The city announced it had struck a macabre deal with Karolina Obrycka, a bartender … Continue reading
Stop-and-Frisk and New York’s Freedom Deficit
The NYPD’s stop-and-frisk program has created two very distinct sets of experiences for the residents of New York City. One portion of the population’s experience embodies relative freedom as we legally and culturally understand it. However, for minority residents of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloomberg, harassment, intimidation, New York City, Nicholas Peart, NYPD, psychology, Raymond Kelly, Shira Scheindlin, stop-and-frisk
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