National Report: Local Jails Now Profiting from Warehousing Prisoners from Overcrowded State Jails, Expanding Slave Labor
Blogs Top Civil Rights Attorney Offers Compelling Argument on Why the Justice System Is an Expensive Continuation of Slavery and Jim Crow
featured Study: ‘Ban the Box’ Double-Edged Sword for Black Job Applicants Because White Employers Find Other Ways to Discriminate
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National After Years of Overcrowding, Harsh Sentencing Alabama Inmates Stage Multiple Uprisings – State Responds with Plans for Bigger Prisons
featured Now That Complexion of Addicts Has Changed to White, the Nation Pivots on War on Drugs, Calling It a Public Health Crisis
Editor's Picks Reparations Now: UN Working Panel Recommends U.S. Pay Black People for Slavery, a Crime Against Humanity
National Life Sentences Destroy Black Families and Communities: A Proposal to Limit Prison Sentences to 20 Years
featured Instruments of Torture: Since Slavery, White Supremacy Has Been a War of Power Against Black Men in America
featured Land of the Free? Innocent Black Men Are Funneled into Prison Through ‘Quality-of-Life’ Crimes, Tortured Confessions
National Outraged: White, Republican Alabama Prosecutor Charges 8-Year-Old Black Boy In Murder of Toddler
featured Obama ‘Bans the Box’ and Gives Ex-Offenders an Unprecedented Second Chance to Re-Enter Society
National The Beginning of the End of the War On Drugs? UN Agency Advocates Drug Decriminalization, Says War on Drugs Violates Human Rights
featured Whole Foods Market Will No Longer Sell Food Made by Prisoners, as Hundreds of Businesses Continue to Profit from Modern-Day Slavery
featured Fifty Years After Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s ‘The Negro Family,’ Black Mass Incarceration is the Order of the Day
News Video This Visualization of the Mass Incarceration of Black People Lays Out Some Numbers That Are Absolutely Staggering
Editor's Picks 8 Reasons President Obama’s Move to Free Blacks from Prison Is Not What It’s Hyped Up To Be