Dr. Byron Price Works to Kill the School-to-Prison Pipeline
There’s a disturbing trend taking place in our public schools, especially in high poverty neighborhoods – where hallways and grounds are patrolled by police and disciplinary problems are no longer handled by counseling and detention but by suspension and arrest. Known as the school-to-prison pipeline, the trend is turning our adolescent students into criminals at [...]
The US Has More People in Prison Than Corrupt Dictator Joseph Stalin Had in His Gulags
If you’re not aware of the infamous Joseph Stalin and his gulags in Soviet Russia, just consider him to be one of the first leaders to realize the economic benefits of incarcerating a large percentage of your population. Stalin was notorious for telling leaders of various villages to meet incarceration quotas at any cost, all [...]
FBI’s Most Wanted Assata Shakur’s Open Letter to the Pope
You might know that activist Assata Shakur was recently added to the FBI’s most-wanted terrorist list. The agency is offering a $1 million dollar reward for her capture, and the state of New Jersey has added another $1 million. Shakur is the first woman to ever make this list and the second domestic “terrorist” to [...]
Ohio Sells a Private Prison and it Decays Into an Abusive Slum, Single Cells Holding Three People
The state of Ohio has been on the forefront of the charge to privatize prisons in order to save money. In 2011, the state sold one of its facilities to the Corrections Corporation of America, the largest owner of private prisons in the country. It only took one year before an audit determined [...]
Russell Simmons and Scores of Celebs Say: “It’s Time to End the War on Drugs”
By Russell Simmons For 42 years, we have waged war against our own people that we have disguised as the “War on Drugs.” Forty-two years of failure that has cost the American taxpayers $1 trillion dollars, resulted in 45 million drug arrests, and overfilled America’s prisons while failing to reduce the availability, sale, or use [...]
Bren Martin: Fixing the School to Prison Pipeline
by Bren Martin As a parent and a parent/community leader, I have a dire concern about the prevailing school-to-prison pipeline that has many pipes through which it works. “According to the U.S Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), over 70 percent of students involved in school-related arrests or referred to law enforcement are Hispanic or [...]
Humanizing Schools: Breaking Down the School-to-Prison Pipeline
When growing up in Memphis, Tenn., three attributes pervaded my school environment, which are non-existent in many urban schools today: a humanized educational environment; teachers who believed in us and expected us to learn; and punishment, which was used as a corrective mechanism and not as a means to criminalize students for adolescent [...]
Why Corporations are Happy to Send Your Children to Prison for Nearly Any Small Offense
Did you know that crime hasn’t increased over the last 30 years, but the prison population has virtually exploded? This revealing set of facts and data make it plain that there is a serious problem with American prisons and the way we’ve set up our justice system. Also, General Electric, which owns MSNBC, tends [...]
This is How the F.B.I. Creates Fake Terror Plots
It is no secret that many of the F.B.I.’s thwarted terror plots are believed to be creations of their own making. Meaning, these weren’t plots that the F.B.I. infiltrated and thwarted, they were plots created by the F.B.I., which then busted people who joined or showed some interest. To put it plainly, the F.B.I. manufactures [...]
NAACP Pres Ben Jealous Speaks on Joining Incarceration Coalition with Dr. Boyce Watkins and Russell Simmons
By Benjamin Todd Jealous The United States has five percent of the world’s people but twenty-five percent of the world’s prisoners. For the sake of our families and future we must do better. Our nation leads the world in the incarceration of our own citizens, both on a per capita basis and in [...]
April 16, 2013No CommentRead More