Tags Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics
Tag: Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics
Beacons of hope: Humboldt State’s Project Rebound builds a prison-to-college pipeline
Project Rebound at HSU breathes life support into possibilities for life successes to people returning from incarceration and at-risk youth.
Exposing a national crisis in Black mental health behind bars
When Dr. Samuel Cartwright coined the term “drapetomania” in 1864, he advanced a historical agenda to secure Black subjugation in America. The logic underlying the continuation and funding of the mass incarceration of the disproportionately Black mentally ill and Dr. Cartwright’s medical breakthroughs is the same: Black people’s mental health cannot be achieved, so society has to maintain extreme and inhumane restrictions on their freedom.