Justice experts in over 30 states call on governors and court officials to protect the health and safety of young people held in detention centers and youth prisons.
“People who have discarded the voices of people with felony convictions should be worried,” says activist Desmond Meade, the man responsible for Amendment 4 which restored voting rights for 1.4 million formerly incarcerated people.
“Inhumane” conditions inside America’s detention centers pose a threat to everyone in the country, says Dr. Amanda Klonsky in a recent New York Times op-ed.
U.S. prisons and jails are particularly vulnerable to outbreaks of the deadly virus because inmates are unable to self-quarantine and lack access to basic hygiene protocols.
“Considering that many incarcerated men & women are subjected to inhumane conditions, including no hand soap, & hand sanitizer is banned in most prisons, this is especially demeaning, ironic & exploitative,” tweeted Rep. Ayanna Pressley.
Rep. Karen Bass: “This form of terrorism was used to kill Black people and terrorize and terrify those into understanding they were not considered humans.”
More than a year after the actor said he was the victim of a hate crime, Chicago’s special prosecutor wants him back in court to face new felony disorderly conduct charges.
More than 50 years after the icon was gunned down, and on the heels of a new Netflix docuseries, the Innocence Project hopes to free a man it says was wrongly convicted.
Executive Producer Brie Miranda Bryant: “It shouldn’t really be through a documentary, it should be through the legal system that these things are handled.”
