Tag: mass incarceration
Los Angeles is creating a model for fighting mass incarceration
Los Angeles County is laying out a vision for reducing incarceration and providing care that could have national significance.
What is the real cost of mass incarceration?
“This is the story of more than just one individual … but [of] tens of thousands of men and women across the country.”
Mass incarceration: An American problem
Private prisons are profiting from America's mass incarceration problem.
Florida Inmates start month-long ‘laydown’ to protest ‘modern day slavery’
Inmates inside Florida's prisons are fighting back against "modern day slavery."
“CoreCivic”: new name, same for-profit prison greed
We must put an end to this shameful vestige of our country’s worst deeds.
The True Cost of Mass Incarceration Exceeds $1 Trillion
Ultimately, the social cost of mass incarceration is 11 times higher than total spent on the corrections system itself.
The Prison-Industrial Complex Takes Another Hit
Officials who built their careers on mass incarceration are now calling for this madness to end. Could this be a turning point for the prison-industrial complex?
Making the Economy Work for the Many and Not the Few...
The way our country imprisons a staggering number of our people is wrong. Instead of mass incarceration, we need to stop wasting human talent and start opening doors to opportunity.
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Clinging bitterly to guns and religion
What will it take to convince Americans to turn their backs on empire and war before it’s too late?
‘Enough is enough’: Australian PM throws support behind movement to free Julian Assange
A growing number of politicians are calling on the United States to drop its case against WikiLeaks founder and Australian citizen Julian Assange.
Brazil’s beef industry linked to deforestation in Amazon
800 million trees were cut down in six years due to cattle ranching, which accounts for 80 percent of current deforestation throughout the Amazon.
When 3 men richer than 165 million people, Sanders says working class must ‘come...
Big-money special interests "want to divide us up," said the independent senator at a living wage rally in South Carolina, "and we are determined to bring working people together."
AI Genie is out of the bottle—UN should take the challenge to make it...
The global community should be comforted knowing that the leadership of the United Nations already knows well what steps are to be taken at this juncture.