Expanding Voting Rights to All Citizens in the Era of Mass Incarceration
Only a handful of states allow people who are currently incarcerated to vote. In some circumstances, people convicted of a crime are permanently disenfranchised. For…
Author: Nicole
New Sentencing Project Report: Private Prisons in the United States
The problems with private prisons are often lost in the conversation of mass incarceration because they hold a smaller number of incarcerated people. However, the…
Law Enforcement Officers and Trauma, a Public Health Crisis
I recently spoke with Sue Radcliffe, LCSW-C, a mental health therapist with the Dorchester County Health Department that also provides yoga to incarcerated people and…
Join our “My Grandmother’s Hands” Book Club
We’re excited about our Community membership website’s first Virtual Book Club offering. We’ll be reading and discussing My Grandmother’s Hands by trauma specialist Resmaa Menakem.…
Racial Disparities in Youth Incarceration Persist
The Sentencing Project recently released a new report on youth incarceration. The findings are frustrating, but sadly not surprising: Black and American Indian youth are…