Tag: drug-related violence

Nobody can assure us that in its agony, the empire won’t be dragging human beings down to catastrophe.

Among many startling findings by legal scholar Michelle Alexander, former director of the ACLU's Racial Justice Project here in the Bay Area, is this: There are more African Americans under correctional control today – in prison or jail, on probation or parole – than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began.