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“Savage Children”
Just read this. The entire thing.
The perspective it provides on violent child offenders and the criminal justice system is unique.
It May Not Be a New Jim Crow, But…
Racial inequalities in the criminal justice system is a real problem. Read more…
When You’re Illegal
Why not join a gang? Read more…
When Children Commit Crimes
Quite often in my feeds I see the collision of perspectives on an issue. This of course is the purported point of the Internet, to bring the spectrum of positions together into a larger conversation. The good news is that that can be had if we want it. Read more…
A Thug with Dreadlocks, Guilty!
One would think that with all the structural issues endemic in our criminal justice system, we would have learned to keep racial distortions out of it. Again and again though, authorities in the law enforcement and criminal justice system unabashedly introduce racially coded language into the context of legal proceedings. Read more…
Another Reason Why the High Incarceration Rate of Black Men Is a Serious Problem
The one out of every ten black men in the United States are currently in prison has been widely reported, and rightly so. That fact alone demands that this issue be discussed and addressed with effective solutions. However, a repercussion of this reality that has remained largely unheard is that the eviction rate for black households can also approach rates of one out of every ten in some areas. Read more…
“Baptists and the Death Penalty”
This post on the Friends of Justice website:
http://friendsofjustice.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/baptists-and-the-death-penalty/
is all the more poignant when you consider that most of those sitting on death row grew up within the most vulnerable and most in need populations in our society, the very definite of, “the least of these.”
Raising the Bar on Juvenile Justice