On Monday morning, students made their way across the Agriculture, Engineering and Arts quads that were flooded with signs sharing messages about incarceration and drug epidemics in the United States.
Amnesty International at Cornell will be hosting a Mass Incarceration Week of Action, from April 9 to April 13. The week will be dedicated to educating students and spreading awareness regarding flaws ...
For years, San Francisco’s former island prison, Alcatraz, has made its reputation mostly on famous escapes and infamous people. Now a new exhibit, one of its first new permanent showcases in decades, ...
Proposition 36 has failed to deliver on its promises of safety, accountability, and mass treatment, instead fueling ...
The Department of Justice, or DOJ, cut $641,050 in funding for Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, or BOSS, a Berkeley-based organization which works to develop solutions to mass homelessness ...
Professor Donald Tibbs will speak at the Policing in America Symposium hosted by Washington and Lee University on Jan. 29. He is appearing on a panel on “Questioning the Trajectory of Mass ...
In the final gallery of the Historic New Orleans Collection’s award-winning exhibition, "Captive State: Louisiana and the Making of Mass Incarceration," visitors were asked to reflect and respond to ...
A recent study by Penn researchers found that one-third of deaths among incarcerated individuals in the United States were caused by cardiovascular disease. The study, which was published in The ...
There is no doubt America is suffering from a coordinated, sustained and intentional attack on civil liberties and minority populations. As the faith community of St. Sabina demonstrated by hanging ...