Michelle Alexander talked about her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, in which she argues that the "get tough on crime" policies that began in the…
Martin Luther King Jr. AssassinatedAt 6:01 p.m. on April 4, 1968, After two workers were crushed to death in a truck's compactor, the sanitation workers went on strike Feb. 11. They…
The Supreme Court... has eviscerated 4th amendment protections against unreasonable searches and seizures, granting to the police the authority to stop, frisk, search just about anyone…
Discussing Her Book - Our Theme for November at Ruach
Michelle Alecander
"... an officer walks up to a young man and says, can i search you for drugs and weapons and the young man says, 'uh huh'... *raising hands above his head* That young man has just waived…
Teen Pregnancy Leads to Prison- Missed Child Support Payments- Incarceration.
"If we were to return to the rates of incarceration we had in the 1970's and the early 1980's.... we would have to release 4 out of 5 people in prison today."
