† 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…
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Trayvon Martin’s mother: ‘Use this case as an example’ … on Friday, Fulton talked about the year since Trayvon’s death, from her “disbelief” about what happened to the role race might play in the case. When I asked Fulton what the last year has been like, a swirl of pain…
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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…
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“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.” More here (10)
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† 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…
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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…
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Real Solutions Don’t Demand Marriage, Just lots of Math.. See also Prison Culture, The Atlantic and The Washington Post (21)
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† 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…
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