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Monthly Archives: March 2011
65 Million “Need Not Apply” – Is it Time for Boycotts?
A report released yesterday by National Employment Law Project (NELP) confirms that many companies are instituting blanket bans on hiring people with criminal records, including those with misdemeanors. Creating what is an public safety issue and, if reforms are not … Continue reading
Posted in prison economics, Rehabilitation
Tagged ABM Industries, Ban the Box, Bank of America, Civil rights movement, Crime and Justice, criminal record, discrimination, drug war, EEOC, Employment, Formerly incarcerated, Hilda Solis, Human rights, Lincoln Chafee, litigation, Lowes, ManPower, National Employment Law Project, NELP, Peter Kilmartin, Prison-Industrial Complex, Rhode Island, Title VII, United States, United States Secretary of Labor
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Politicians Unify Prisoners’ Power! (for themselves)
For those of you in my home state, Prison-Based Gerrymandering might be well known, along with my comrades in New York, Delaware, or Maryland. For the rest, please take this small state example and reach out for us to help … Continue reading
Georgia D.O.C. Wages Retaliation Campaign In Wake of 2010 Strike
Correspondence between Atlanta Attorney Mario Williams of Williams Oinonen LLC, (representing several brutalized inmates) and the Georgia Department of Corrections, along with documents from Open Records Requests, reveal disturbing patterns and unanswered questions as to the DOC’s actions and … Continue reading
Posted in Prison Conditions
Tagged Beatings, Black Agenda Report, Brutality, Civil rights movement, Corrections officer, Department of Corrections, Georgia Department of Corrections, Health, Human rights, Justice for Miguel, Miguel Jackson, Prison, Prison-Industrial Complex, The Ordinary People Society, TOPS
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Marijuana Reform Efforts Move Forward This Week in NY and RI
NEW YORK: A new report will be released on the steps of City Hall on Tuesday, documenting the astronomical financial costs of the over 50,300 arrests for marijuana possession in New York City in 2010, and the cost of the 350,000 … Continue reading
Posted in Drug Policy
Tagged Cannabis, Crime and Justice, Criminal justice, DARE, Direct Action for Rights and Equality, drug policy, Drug Policy Alliance, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Letitia James, Marijuana Policy Project, New York City, New York City Police Department, Prison-Industrial Complex, Rhode Island
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Latest “Ban the Box” Battleground: RI on Tuesday.
At the Rhode Island Statehouse this Tuesday, civil rights and social justice advocates will be making a stand for an anti-discrimination trend that is sweeping the nation: “Ban the Box.” This box on job applications, asking if one has been … Continue reading
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Formerly Incarcerated & Convicted People’s Movement Arises!
Alabama represents the answer to a clarion call. This is a call that speaks to us in our own voice; clear, loud and urgent. A voice that speaks to our identity and emanates from the soul, ringing true both in … Continue reading →