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Category: Criminal Injustice Series - Year: 2013
Revelations: “here on this bridge between starshine and clay…”
December 29th, 2013
“won’t you celebrate with me” by Lucille Clifton Rachel Jeantel’s Short Blue Dream by Kiese Laymon (34)
Continue ReadingRemembering the Dakota 38
December 26th, 2013
Dakota 38 + 2 Wokiksuye riders to remember Mankato 1862 execution In the Footsteps of Little Crow: Six Part Series (37)
Continue ReadingCI: Towards 2014
December 25th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Towards 2014 by […]
Continue ReadingHeat Levels on LSP Angola’s Death Row Ruled Unconstitutional
December 21st, 2013
Judge rules heat levels on Angola death row subject inmates to ‘cruel and unusual punishment’, NOLA.com Death row inmates incarcerated in unventilated cells and without access to cool water at Angola prison are being subjected to cruel and unusual punishment, a federal judge in Baton Rouge ruled Thursday (Dec. 19). In a 102-page ruling handed down […]
Continue ReadingCI: The Year in State-Sponsored Homicide
December 18th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. The Year in […]
Continue ReadingCI: More Than 1000 Words…
December 11th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. More than 1000 […]
Continue ReadingCI: For Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969)
December 4th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. For Fred Hampton […]
Continue ReadingFair Sentencing Act Ruled Not Retroactive for Inmates Sentenced under 100 to 1 Ratios
December 3rd, 2013
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Divided Federal Court Rules Crack Cocaine Sentencing Reforms Do Not Apply To Those Already in Prison Today, a sharply divided Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Fair Sentencing Act (FSA), which reduced the unfair, unjustified, and racially discriminatory crack cocaine/powder cocaine sentencing ratio from […]
Continue ReadingRevelations: Earthlings
December 1st, 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTjhtgX72lw EARTHLINGS is an award-winning documentary film about the suffering of animals for food, fashion, pets, entertainment and medical research. The film is narrated by Academy Award® nominee Joaquin Phoenix and features music by platinum-selling recording artist Moby. Initially ignored by distributors, today EARTHLINGS is considered the definitive animal rights film by organizations around the […]
Continue ReadingCI: Remembering Trayvon Martin, Special Edition of ProudFlesh
November 27th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Remembering Trayvon Martin, […]
Continue ReadingCI: No to Mandatory Minimums ~ Yes To Another Way
November 20th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. No to Mandatory […]
Continue ReadingCI: Black Life, Perceived Threat, and “Stand Your Ground”
November 13th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Black Life, Perceived […]
Continue ReadingCI: This Week in the War on Black ~ Repression Builds Resistance
November 6th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. This Week in […]
Continue ReadingCI: Prison Privatization Part 1, Another Cautionary Tale from California
October 30th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Prison Privatization Part […]
Continue ReadingCI: Victim Blaming, Backlash, and Distractions
October 23rd, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Victim Blaming, Backlash, […]
Continue ReadingCI: National Action for Marissa Alexander
October 16th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. National Action for […]
Continue ReadingCI: Dangerous White Dreams, #BreakingBad
October 9th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Dangerous White Dreams, […]
Continue ReadingHerman Wallace (October 13, 1941 – October 4, 2013): “I am Free”
October 4th, 2013
Hermans’ House Obituary/Press Statement at Angola 3 News: The Muhammad Ali of Criminal Justice (28)
Continue ReadingCI: National Week of Action Against School Pushout
October 2nd, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. National Week of […]
Continue ReadingAfter 41 years in Solitary, Herman Wallace is Finally Freed
October 1st, 2013
Free At Last! Herman Wallace Has Finally Been Released, Angola 3 News Despite all the exciting drama of the day, this is obviously a deeply bittersweet moment for all those involved in the campaign as we know Herman may not have much longer amongst us, but thanks to the unwavering commitment to justice that those on […]
Continue ReadingCI: LSP Angola Prison Rodeo, At the Intersections of Abuse
September 25th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. LSP Angola Prison […]
Continue ReadingTroy Anthony Davis (10/9/1968 – 9/21/2011)
September 21st, 2013
Two years after Troy Davis’ execution, our fight to end the death penalty lives Jen Marlowe and Kimberly Davis On 21 September 2011, the state of Georgia killed Troy Anthony Davis as the world looked on, aghast that Georgia was proceeding with the execution, overlooking a mountain of evidence that pointed towards Troy’s innocence… In […]
Continue ReadingCI: A Message from Herman Wallace (and Us)
September 18th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. A Message from […]
Continue ReadingRevelations: “Venceremos” (We Will Win)
September 16th, 2013
Victor Jara (September 28, 1932 – September 16, 1973) 40 Years After Chile Coup, Family of Slain Singer Víctor Jara Sues Alleged Killer in U.S. Court Bruce Springsteen Honors Chilean Folk Hero Victor Jara in Santiago Former Chilean military official found liable for killing of Victor Jara (19)
Continue ReadingThe Rose That Grew From Concrete
September 13th, 2013
Tupac Amaru Shakur (June 16, 1971 – September 13, 1996) (9)
Continue ReadingCI: Torture at Home
September 11th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Torture at Home […]
Continue ReadingRevelations: Chickens Come Home to Roost
September 8th, 2013
Rescued Hens Fly Cross-Country to Find New Lives Packed, prepped and finally flying high, some 1,200 rescued hens aboard a chartered cargo plane touched down in Elmira, N.Y., early Thursday morning, completing a cross-country chicken run that involved two pilots, dozens of doting animal lovers and untold numbers of grateful clucks. The birds, just 2 […]
Continue ReadingCI: Brutalizing Children Who Were Promised Protection
September 4th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Brutalizing Children Who […]
Continue ReadingCI: Militarization, Surveillance, and the Police State, Part 2
August 28th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Militarization, Surveillance, and […]
Continue ReadingLawsuit Filed in Miami Taser Death
August 28th, 2013
Family Sues Miami Beach in Taser Death by the Police, New York Times MIAMI — The family of an 18-year-old street artist who died three weeks ago after being shocked with a Taser by the police filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the City of Miami Beach and its police chief, accusing officers of “unnecessary, […]
Continue ReadingCI: Attica Prison Uprising 101
August 21st, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Editors Note: What […]
Continue ReadingCI: Tagging, Tasers, and the Police State, Part 1
August 14th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Tagging, Tasers, […]
Continue ReadingMedia and the Fourth Amendment: “A Cop Done Frisked my Sister Nell…”
August 10th, 2013
A cop done frisked my sister Nell, but Whitey’s on the phone… http://t.co/LnihuwvztK — Tommy Christopher (@tommyxtopher) August 10, 2013 This NSA Scandal Is A White People Problem by Tommy Christopher, Mediaite In case you hadn’t heard, the National Security Agency is Red-Wedding-ing Americans’ freedom by backing up phone records and collecting internet data from […]
Continue ReadingCI: Two Years On, UK Riots in Context
August 7th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. “Riot is the […]
Continue ReadingCI: A Voice from the Tombs
July 31st, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Editors Note: Many […]
Continue ReadingCI: What Would Real Justice for Trayvon Martin Look Like?
July 24th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. What Would Real […]
Continue ReadingPresident Obama On Trayvon Martin:”There is a history of racial disparities in the application of our criminal laws…”
July 19th, 2013
President Obama’s remarks on Trayvon Martin (full transcript) You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot, I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African- American community at least, there’s a […]
Continue ReadingCI: Of The Verdict, Whiteness,and Abolition
July 17th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Of The Verdict, […]
Continue ReadingZimmerman Verdict: What Does Justice Look Like?
July 13th, 2013
Zimmerman Not Guilty in Killing of Trayvon Martin What Does #Justice4Trayvon Look Like? George Zimmerman, Not Guilty: Blood on the Leaves From the outset— throughout the forty-four days it took for there to be an arrest, and then in the sixteen months it took to for this case to come to trial—there was a nagging […]
Continue ReadingThe Zimmerman Murder Case Goes to the Jury: “Use Your God-Given Common Sense”
July 12th, 2013
Zimmerman Case Goes to Jury “That child had every right to be where he was,” Mr. Guy said. “That child had every right to do what he was doing, walking home. That child had every right to be afraid of a strange man following him, first in his car and then on foot. And did […]
Continue ReadingCI: Sister Helen Prejean, Abolition, and The Power of One Voice
July 10th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Sister Helen Prejean, […]
Continue ReadingHerman’s House: Resisting the Cage
July 8th, 2013
Herman Wallace may be the longest-serving prisoner in solitary confinement in the United States—he’s spent more than 40 years in a 6-by-9-foot cell in Louisiana. Imprisoned in 1967 for a robbery he admits, he was subsequently sentenced to life for a killing he vehemently denies. Herman’s House is a moving account of the remarkable expression […]
Continue ReadingThe New Eugenics is the Old Eugenics: Female Inmates Illegally Sterilized in California
July 7th, 2013
Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval: Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010 without required state approvals, the Center for Investigative Reporting has found. At least 148 women received tubal ligations in violation of prison rules during those five years […]
Continue ReadingCI: After Trayvon Martin, Revisited
July 3rd, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. After Trayvon Martin, […]
Continue ReadingCI: The “Criminal” Court and the Needlessly Divided “Left”
June 26th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. The “Criminal Court” […]
Continue ReadingCI: Unpacking “Chiraq” – Repression, RICO, and War on Terror Tactics
June 19th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Unpacking “Chiraq”: Repression, […]
Continue ReadingCI: The War on Black – “Color-blindness” and Criminalization, Part 2
June 12th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. The War on […]
Continue ReadingCI: The War on Black ~ “Color-blindness” and Criminalization, Part 1
June 5th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. The War on […]
Continue ReadingSCOTUS Upholds Warrantless DNA Collection at Arrest
June 3rd, 2013
Supreme Court upholds DNA swabbing of people under arrest, NBC News: The Supreme Court on Monday upheld the police practice of taking DNA samples from people who have been arrested but not convicted of a crime, ruling that it amounts to the 21st century version of fingerprinting. The ruling was 5-4. Justice Antonin Scalia, a […]
Continue ReadingCI: An interview with author and former prisoner Shawn Griffith ~ Angola 3 News
May 29th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Abusing Prisoners Decreases […]
Continue ReadingCI: Redemption, Transformation & Justice, Part 2
May 22nd, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. CI: Redemption, Transformation […]
Continue ReadingCI: Of Charles Ramsey & Stanley Tookie Williams ~ Redemption & Transformation, Part 1
May 15th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI.Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Of Charles Ramsey and […]
Continue ReadingCI: Desperately Seeking Assata
May 8th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. CI: Desperately Seeking […]
Continue ReadingDeath on the Track: The First Saturday in May
May 3rd, 2013
Breakdown: Death and Disarray at America’s Racetracks See also For Whom The Bell Tolls: Three Dead per Day (24)
Continue ReadingCI: Still Starving for Justice
May 1st, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Still Starving for […]
Continue ReadingCI: Power to the Imagination
April 24th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. “Power to the […]
Continue ReadingCI: Four Score and One Too Many Years
April 17th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Four Score and […]
Continue ReadingThe Central Park Five: Same As It Ever Was
April 16th, 2013
The Film THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE, a new film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park in 1989. Directed and produced by Burns, David McMahon and Sarah Burns, the film […]
Continue ReadingTell the NRA, the White House, and Your Senators ~ No!! to More Police in Schools
April 15th, 2013
With Police in Schools, More Children in Court, New York Times Since the early 1990s, thousands of districts, often with federal subsidies, have paid local police agencies to provide armed “school resource officers” for high schools, middle schools and sometimes even elementary schools. Hundreds of additional districts, including those in Houston, Los Angeles and Philadelphia, […]
Continue ReadingCI: Policing Gender/Style, Still
April 10th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Policing Gender/Style, Still […]
Continue ReadingCI: DNA “Evidence”, Privacy, and Racialized Dragnets
April 3rd, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. DNA “Evidence”, Privacy, […]
Continue ReadingCI: For Intervening Variables, Not Yet Seen
March 27th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. For Intervening Variables, […]
Continue Reading“Blatant Racial Bias” in Texas Death Penalty
March 21st, 2013
More Than 100 Civil Rights Leaders, Elected Officials, Clergy, Former Prosecutors and Judges, Current and Past ABA Presidents, and a Former TX Governor Call for New, Fair Sentencing for Duane Buck NAACP Calls Mr. Buck’s Death Penalty Case a “Blatant Example of Racial Bias” (Harris County, Texas, March 20, 2013) Today, 102 prominent individuals from Texas and […]
Continue ReadingCI: The Death Penalty Crumbles ~ Maryland and Beyond
March 20th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. The Death Penalty […]
Continue ReadingGideon v Wainwright at 50: Right to Counsel for the Poor Remains an Illusion
March 19th, 2013
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Continue ReadingCI: Smoke and Mirrors
March 13th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Smoke and […]
Continue ReadingProtest in Brooklyn Over Police Killing
March 12th, 2013
Protests In Brooklyn After Police Kill 16-Year Old Boy Around 100 people took to the streets of Brooklyn Monday night to protest the death of 16-year-old Kimani Gray, who was shot dead by the New York City Policy over the weekend. Police maintain that Gray pointed a gun at the officers prior to the shooting, […]
Continue ReadingCI: The Campaign to Free the Angola 3 Intensifies
March 6th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. The Campaign to […]
Continue ReadingPrison Profiteer, GEO Group, Buys Name Rights to FAU Stadium
March 4th, 2013
A Football Stadium Becomes Ground Zero in the Fight Against the New Jim Crow, The Nation: A sit-in at the university president’s office; calls for their resignation; a packed, campus-wide meeting that resolves nothing and opens the door to further conflict. Such actions are notable enough on their own, but we’ve never seen a protest […]
Continue ReadingCI: Andre Thomas is Both Mad and Now Blind, As is the System About to Murder Him…
February 27th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Kay Whitlock, co-author of Queer (In)Justice, is contributing editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. “[T]he Eighth Amendment […]
Continue ReadingThe Power of the Unions
February 22nd, 2013
Big Labor’s Lock ‘Em Up Mentality How otherwise progressive unions stand in the way of a more humane correctional system —By James Ridgeway and Jean Casella In Mother Jones and Solitary Watch Now AFSCME will apparently fight to keep a troubled prison open simply to keep some of its members from having to relocate. All […]
Continue ReadingCI: Strategizing to Defeat Control Unit Prisons and Solitary Confinement
February 20th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Strategizing to Defeat Control Unit Prisons and Solitary Confinement –An interview with author/activist Nancy […]
Continue ReadingWarrior Queen: Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992)
February 18th, 2013
Audre Lorde (February 18, 1934 – November 17, 1992) Power By Audre Lorde The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children. I am trapped on a desert of raw gunshot wounds and a dead child dragging his shattered black face off the edge of my sleep blood […]
Continue Reading“It’s Simple Mathematics”
February 16th, 2013
Real Solutions Don’t Demand Marriage, Just lots of Math.. See also Prison Culture, The Atlantic and The Washington Post (21)
Continue ReadingCI: Crimes of Style ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat
February 13th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Crimes of Style ~ Jean-Michel Basquiat by nancy a heitzeg “Most Young Kings […]
Continue ReadingThe Longest War
February 9th, 2013
The Nation: Watching ‘The House I Live In’ on Rikers Island On a rainy Friday in December, Eugene Jarecki took a small group of fellow filmmakers to a special screening of his acclaimed documentary, The House I Live In, in New York City. The film, a powerful indictment of the war on drugs, enjoys such […]
Continue ReadingCI: The Black Panther Party’s Living Legacy –Touring Oakland and Berkeley with Billy X Jennings Part 1
February 6th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. The Black Panther Party’s Living Legacy –Touring Oakland and Berkeley with Billy X Jennings […]
Continue ReadingTrayvon Martin Should Have Been 18 Today
February 5th, 2013
Support the Second Chance for Shoot First Campaign Support the Change for Trayvon Movement Support #Justice4Trayvon (13)
Continue ReadingCI: The PIC – Old School/New School 2
January 30th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. The PIC – Old School/New School 2 by nancy a heitzeg Last week CI […]
Continue ReadingArt/Life: “The Last Supper”
January 27th, 2013
New York Times/ see Slide Show That the world knows what a condemned person was served — indeed, that such information is often part of the narrative of the execution itself, posted on Web sites and in news articles from the prison — is what initially caught Professor Green’s attention… The number of executions has […]
Continue ReadingAt Largest Women’s Prison in the World, Over-Crowding = Death
January 25th, 2013
California Coalition for Women Prisoners The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) is converting Valley State Prison for Women (VSPW) into a men’s prison in response to a U.S. Supreme Court order to reduce overcrowding. Instead of releasing people and closing VSPW, they are squeezing over 1,000 women and transgender people into the two […]
Continue ReadingCI: The PIC – Old School/New School
January 23rd, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. The PIC – Old School/New School by nancy a heitzeg Editors Note: For the […]
Continue ReadingCI: Community Corrections, Profiteering, Corruption & Widening the Net
January 16th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Community Corrections: Profiteering, Corruption & Widening the Net by Kay Whitlock How did Marissa […]
Continue ReadingArt, Life, and Andy Warhol: Guns
January 11th, 2013
Diversity of Voice: Views on Guns in the United States The Warhol: Resources and Lessons (20)
Continue ReadingCI: Real Justice?
January 9th, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. Real Justice? by Juvencia Townsend (Courtesy of Victoria Law*: “Juvencia originally wrote this letter […]
Continue ReadingCI: How to Convey the Horror?
January 2nd, 2013
† Criminal InJustice is a weekly series devoted to taking action against inequities in the U.S. criminal justice system. Nancy A. Heitzeg, Professor of Sociology and Race/Ethnicity, is the Editor of CI. Criminal Injustice is published every Wednesday at 6 pm. How to Convey the Horror? by nancy a heitzeg Editors Note: It’s 2013 – […]
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