Movie premiere: “Learning from Our Mistakes”
From the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, a new film about the overhaul of California’s juvenile justice system. Here’s the deets: In the United States, 90,000 youth find themselves in juvenile...
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A new documentary coming out this spring will look at the many ingredients that contributed to our nation’s current high incarceration rate. (Preview above.) For those interested in learning more...
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Event: April 5 panel on solitary confinement
Pelican Bay State Prison is known for its Security Housing Units Those interested in learning more about the use of isolation units in US prisons would do well to attend a panel being put on tomorrow...
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Q&A: Michelle Alexander on “The New Jim Crow”
Michelle Alexander Michelle Alexander, an associate professor of law at Ohio State University, worked in and around the criminal justice system for years–clerking for Supreme Court Justice Harry...
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