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 CST. Another Shame of the Nation ~ Juvenile Life Without…
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From AmericanProspect: The percentage of Hispanics in Arizona has remained steady since then, at around 30 percent, but the voting age population has increased to 845,000, and now constitutes 19 percent of Arizona residents of voting age, up from 17 percent in 2008. What’s more, intense Republican antagonism—through intrusive, draconian…
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From Institute for Southern Studies: Last month, officials in South Carolina, facing resistance from the Department of Justice to their new voter ID law, concocted a ghoulish tale of dead voters taking over the state’s elections. As was suspected from the beginning, the fevered stories of “zombie voters” turned out…
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From ThinkProgress: [A] broad coalition of religious organizations filed an amicus brief supporting the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion that should give the lie to any claim that the faith community opposes the ACA. The brief includes a number of major religious denominations, including the policy arm of the United…
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An extended clip from a presentation by Allan G Johnson on race given at the University of Wisconsin, including using the the game of Monopoly to illustrate the relationship between individuals and social systems and a description of the system of white privilege. For more information on Allan G. Johnson…
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From Mother Jones: We Americans like to imagine ourselves as rugged individualists, but we haven’t truly struck out on our own until the past couple of decades. More than half of all adults—100 million or so—are currently single; about 1 in 7, or around 31 million, are living alone. In…
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From CAP: President Barack Obama is not a “food stamp president.” According to recent figures, more food stamp recipients were actually added under President George W. Bush than under President Obama. Under President Bush the number of recipients rose by nearly 14.7 million. Blacks are not the primary recipients of…
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