Some 2,000 incarcerated firefighters from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation are earning just $2 a day to contain the largest wildfire ever recorded in the state’s history.
Despite widespread succes of state-level legalization laws, Black and Latinx people remain disproportionate victims of racial profiling and over policing.
Sanders: “Study after study after study has shown private prisons are not cheaper, they are not safer, and they do not provide better outcomes for either the prisoners or the state.”
Student organizers who successfully fought for the divestment say Columbia is the first American university to pull its investments from the private prison industry.
Maya Schenwar, a journalist and the author of the new book ‘Locked Down, Locked Out’ talks restorative justice, birth in prison and white privilege in the fight against mass incarceration.
Here’s how former Virginia attorney general Mark Earley realized that his generation had gone too far–and the work he’s been doing over the last 15 years to help undo the overly punitive system that they built.
