Brother J of The X Clan returns with a powerful message about the trials of incarceration and the prison industrial complex. Featuring Christian Scott on trumpet. From the latest album “Return From Mecca“. Directed by Wraithe for Kinetik Cinematix. 2008
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thejerichomovement.com It is imperative that people and organizations involved with advocating human rights, community development, and educating and organizing around social/political issues, and addressing various aspects of the prison industrial complex (viz. mass incarcerations, special housing units, solitary confinement, etc.) understand the need to support all campaigns to free political prisoners. The struggle […]
http://www.thehullabaloo.com/views/article_1644e6b0-a2f0-11e2-affa-001a4bcf6878.html Posted: Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:39 pm Brendan Lyman For 41 years, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace have been wrongly detained in solitary confinement, the majority of that time spent in the infamous Angola Prison. April 17 will mark the anniversary of one of America’s great injustices. And yet, just four days later, more […]
Sin Barras — ‘without (prison) bars’ in spanish — is a community-based group out of Santa Cruz that works to build coalitions to eradicate the prison industrial-complex. sin-barras-vol-1.pdf download PDF (2.4MB) [Click the image above to download and read our zine!] What is the prison industrial complex? The prison industrial complex (PIC) is a term […]
j.n. salters Writer, doctoral student, sex-positive black feminist Last week, 8-year-old Jmyha Rickman was handcuffed and held by police for two hours after throwing a temper tantrum at LoveJoy Elementary School in Alton, Illinois. On April 13, 2012, 6-year-old Salecia Johnson was handcuffed and arrested in her principal’s office and taken to a local police station […]
Having recently learned of the diatribe among erudite scholars challenging the premise of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, I found the entire matter self-serving from each side. Often it is the case that intellectuals debate the validity of their works and avoid taking the necessary step of […]
by A. Johnson For the last couple of years social justice advocates have loudly sung the praises of Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration the Age of Colorblindness, which has garnered a huge following and spawned an allegedly new designation for racial inequity in the United States. However, former champions […]
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. The PIC – Old School/New School 2 by nancy a heitzeg Last week CI […]
” There was a proposition in a township there to discontinue public schools because they were too expensive. An old farmer spoke up and said if they stopped the schools they would not save anything, because every time a school was closed a jail had to be built. It’s like feeding a dog on his […]
