In today’s era where we recently had an African-American as the President of the United States, does that mean America has become post-racial? As former President Obama said in his farewell address “... such a vision, however well-intended, was never realistic. Race remains a potent ...
(2019) found that 42.9 and 11.2% of females who were incarcerated for CSAM crimes were subject to sexual abuse in childhood only and adulthood only, respectively, whereas 10.2 and 24.5% were subject to physical abuse in childhood only and adulthood only, respectively (Bickart et al., 2019)....
White feminism doesn’t meet women of colour where they are, but expects them to "aspire to be seen" instead and "blames women of colour, queer women, incarcerated women, and poor women for not achieving certain 'feminist wins' (such as balancing motherhood with a career or home ownership...
The participant has been incarcerated over the past 32 years. He was recently paroled after completing eight years of a sixteen year sentence in the Illinois Department of Corrections for burglary and theft. The participant is on medications to treat HIV/AIDS and has been diagnosed with Major...
"People with mental health and drug issues and all these problems, nobody's going to post bond for them," says Clayton. "Does it mean that we need to keep all these people in jail? No." Loading...Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement an error occurred.0 We Care About Your Privacy...
Fighting it does not mean asking for the religious schools to be banned, it means working towards the day when they are voluntarily abandoned as bad ideas. It means keeping an eagle eye on public institutions and demanding accountability. It means putting your ear to the ground and listening ...
But it does mean that we intentionally keep the community an uplifting, welcoming, and fun place to recharge your batteries when the world feels heavy and exhausting. If you’re a person of color, we hope you know you are valued in this community, and your voice will be heard. If you ...
In our everyday use of language, we can legitimize and reinforce patently false narratives about crime, not only in our uncritical reiteration of statistics but also in loaded phrases that reinforce criminalization.Ronald Simpson-Bey, a formerly incarcerated person and decarceration activist for Just...
The Pinhook is, in the best of times, more than a rock club, equally likely to fill its calendar with drag shows, dance parties, and letter-writing nights for incarcerated people. At the front of the folk-rock outfit Loamlands, Register was on the road just a few weeks before the ...
“Just because someone is handcuffed does not mean they cannot be subjected to force,” Peterson told CNN Friday. “However – and this is a big however – if someone is no longer a direct threat to the officers and is complying with instructions, it would certainly be excessive to strike...