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Stopping the Exploitation of Prisoners and Their Families Requires More Comprehensive Solutions
Dr. Ben Chavis

Stopping the Exploitation of Prisoners and Their Families Requires More Comprehensive Solutions

Dr. Ben ChavisDecember 9, 2020

2020 brought renewed global focus to issues of social justice in America.  From the racial disparities and inequities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic to the killings of George Floyd and so many other Black and Brown Americans at the hands of police officers have all contributed to the evolving social justice “reckoning” across the nation. . As part of this long overdue redress about institutional and systemic racism, renewed attention should also be focused on the many injustices within the U.S. correctional system. Black and Brown Americans are disproportionately imprisoned in the United States. Much of the public outrage has been directed

SPECIAL REPORT: Mass Incarceration of Women and Minorities a New Crisis
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SPECIAL REPORT: Mass Incarceration of Women and Minorities a New Crisis

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire CorrespondentMay 9, 2019

Courtesy The Marshall Project/PBS Although the number of people in prisons and jails in America has slightly declined, numbers released on Thursday, April 25, by the Bureau of Justice Statistics still show that nearly 1.5 million individuals were in prison by the end of 2017. The statistics also note that the U.S. continues to lock up more people than any other nation. And, despite a narrowing disparity between incarcerated black and white women, females have emerged as the new face of mass incarceration. “I don’t think this should be much of a surprise as two of the main for-profit prison

We Must All Invest In Our At Promise Youth
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We Must All Invest In Our At Promise Youth

Assemblymember Reginald Byron Jones-SawyerApril 12, 2018

As the Chairman of the Assembly Committee on Public Safety and the Select Committee on The Status of Boys and Men of Color, I have visited many jails and prisons.  Regardless of the facility, I always leave with the belief that we can and should do more to change the path that leads these men, women and youth to incarceration.