Tag: decarceration
New Restorative Justice Spaces Must Be Culturally Competent
Brandi Mack from Designing Justice talks about how their work designing restorative justice spaces centers people who have been directly impacted by the system. Producer: Ericka Blount Danois Director/Video Editor: Cameron Granadino Subscribe to our…
COVID-19 spikes in prison will spread to the larger community
The National Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice—whose mission is to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the justice system—reports that the rate of COVID cases in federal and state prisons is more than four…
Revolt against the carceral world
With 2.1 million incarcerated people, the United States has the largest prison population in the world. But America’s prison system is part of a larger social apparatus that predominantly targets, criminalizes, and polices poor people…
‘This is war’ fighting mass incarceration from inside prisons | Rattling the Bars
Click here to read the transcript: https://therealnews.com/how-a-1970s-prisoner-organized-literacy-program-changed-marylands-penitentiaries Marshall “Eddie” Conway was framed for the murder of a police officer and incarcerated for 44 years—but even behind bars, he continued to organize. In the early 1970s,…
