Tomorrow, Saturday december 14th, free community defender resources will be offered at the Ross Snyder Recreation Center in Los Angeles from 10a-12 noon.
Nearly every single solution to the prison understaffng crisis adds to the problem and creates the cyclical spiral mentioned above. Few consider the biggest factor; mass incarceration. rA report from Prison Policy Initiative examines why raises, benefits, and new facilities haven't turned recruitment around, and what that informs about the state of mass incarceration.
Across the nation, schools often implement harsh punishments that push students out of school and into the juvenile justice system, perpetuating school-to-prison pipeline. Organizations like Dignity In Schools Campaign - California aim to dismantle that pipeline through local grassroots action.
Hundreds of voices across the social, political, and faith landscape call on President Biden to commute the federal death row before he leaves office in January.
Prison libraries are often under-resourced, strictly regulated, with limited and outdated selections of books. The Appalachian Prison Book Project is running a fundraiser (until December 7th) where you can sponsor an incarcerated reader and directly support incarcerated people reading inside.
Re-entry is fraught with enough challenges. Adding to it, a Cal Matters report found the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitations shorted many people leaving prison "Gate Money," as required by California state law, since 1994.
1 of 5 people incarerated in the United States is locked up for a non-violent drug offense via policies that disproportionally affect communities of color. Help us urge President Biden to use his pardon power and free the victims of the failed war on drugs.
Wired Magazine reports that ICE is soliciting plans to expand its digital surveillance system ahead of the plan mass deport millions of undocumented immigrants. Civil and criminal justice rights organizations see no reason to believe that's where the scope of use will end.
The Marshall Project followed the work at Lee Correctional Facility in Bishopville, SC to institute a European-based incarceration model focused on rehabilitation, and the political headwinds they encountered from the South Carolina state government.
Organizations Grateful Living and Prisoner Express created Gratitude Behind Bars, where incarcerated persons received information on gratefulness. In response, participants were encouraged to share their thoughts and experiences about gratitude in writing.