Daily Archives: May 30, 2019
Allowing prisoners to vote would reform America’s outdated prison policies
Felony disenfranchisement is a symptom left behind from Jim Crow. The rights of formerly enslaved Africans were tweaked, trimmed and stripped throughout the Jim Crow era.
The criminal justice system is not broken – it is ruthlessly effective
It is daunting to acknowledge, but this country’s competitive criminal justice system offers sad testimony not to a broken American criminal justice system, but to one that is ruthlessly effective. The criminal justice system, as it stands now, based on winners and losers, is working – wrongful convictions and all.
‘It’s not the drug, it’s the structure’: Mixing Black, gay, HIV+ with meth in...
“People use drugs, and are at the risk for the harms related to drug use, oftentimes because of a severe lack of access to resources."