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As Incarceration of Women Doubles, Racial Disproportionality Increases
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2018women.html
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Who Will Speak for Racial Equity?
Will new reporting guidelines help or hurt racial disparities in the juvenile justice system? What happens when authorities stop recording or paying attention to racial disparities? https://www.themarshallproject.org/2018/09/19/this-agency-tried-to-fix-the-race-gap-in-juvenile-justice-then-came-trump?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share-tools&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=post-top Race Matters in the Justice System
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Tuesday Oct 5th – Wrongful Conviction Day
Innocence Project As one of the Central Park Five, I was wrongfully convicted and incarcerated as a teenager for a horrible crime I did not commit. I was finally exonerated in 2002. After all these years, that experience has never left me. Even though I’m free, I can’t and I won’t forget about all the…
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Where is the Disconnect?
Officials report they fear there will be no place for some young people to go when they close or downsize Rikers Island in New York. This is the institution that imprisoned 17 yr old Kalief Browder for approx 3 years without a trial after being accused of stealing a backpack. All the while, community…
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Youth Interns for Progress, Peace, and Justice
Now Recruiting Youth Interns for Progress, Peace, and Justice What? A Project to Reduce Crime and Improve Racial Equity We are looking for youth with experiences in foster care and or the juvenile justice system who have been charged with low-level nonviolent offenses to serve as interns for social change. Who? Males and Females…
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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.”
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Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. Langston Hughes
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Happy Black History Month!
“ “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
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“Preventing Another Flint will Take an Outpouring of Resolve.”
Another minority community, this time in East Tx, faces major public health crisis suspected from fracking/inversion well spills and operations. https://wordpress.com/view/itsaboutmorethanjustus.wordpress.com
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Public Health, Environmental Health: Whose Responsibility is It?
Flint -Michigan- Should race, class, and power determine the quality of public health? https://www.huffingtonpost.com/sandro-galea/lessons-from-flint-its-no_b_9100654.html
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