Sentences with phrase «mass incarceration»

The exhibition challenges viewers to consider the impact of mass incarceration on vulnerable communities, as well as the entire country.

In particular, his work focuses on the intersection of the immigration and mass incarceration in the criminal system.

We want our government to work again, on health care, ending mass incarceration, fixing our broken subway.

This project works to repair the damage wrought by mass incarceration by building pathways from corrections to college, career entry, and family security.

One study found that our nation's poverty rate would have dropped by 20 % if not for mass incarceration.

Given the debate over mass incarceration, some, however, think the interest can be useful and positive.

He wants to fight to end cash bail and pass speedy trial reform, two issues that contribute to the continued mass incarceration of communities of color.

While defending the progress made in recent years, we must also strive for criminal justice reforms bold enough to tackle mass incarceration.

Learn how electronic monitoring threatens to become a form of high - tech mass incarceration.

The current era of mass incarceration requires that we all ask ourselves fundamental questions about safety, punishment, race, gender, and oppression.

We want our government to work again on healthcare, ending mass incarceration, fixing our broken subway.

«My vision would be to reduce mass incarceration of non-violent offenders by fifty percent over the next ten years, 25 percent over the next five years.

Director Ava DuVernay may have been snubbed for a Best Director nomination two years ago, but she was duly recognized this year for helming Netflix's searing documentary about mass incarceration of black people in the United States.

Hawkins joined with Alice Green and Center for Law and Justice to deliver 10,000 petition signatures to Cuomo Tuesday calling on the governor to establish a Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission to study the impacts of mass incarceration on New Yorkers, largely brought about by the failed war on drugs.

At 7 a.m., immigrant and working - class New Yorkers march on Wall Street to demand they cease profiting from mass incarceration of immigrants and people of color, Battery Park to Wall Street, Manhattan.

In further news: New York art project fights mass incarceration with house music; Marcia Hafif passes away at 89

At a moment when 2.2 million people are incarcerated in the US, 3.8 million people are on probation, and 870,000 former prisoners are on parole, how can images tell the story of mass incarceration when the imprisoned don't have control over their own representation?

Fabiani Duarte, along with guest host Andrew Scott and guest attorney Sarah Walton, take a look at mass incarceration in our criminal justice system and how restorative justice concepts could be applied.

And there's no shame in conservatives» reappraising certain consequences of their»90s agenda, such as mass incarceration.

A day of programs addressing mass incarceration and displacement, including workshops, a teach - in on the Reconstruction Era, and a public dialogue on the present state of reentry and imprisonment in Philadelphia.

Today's American Slavery to highlight the connection between mass incarceration in the United States and mainstream commerce.

As Ava Duvernay's new documentary «The 13th» makes clear, the United States has a serious mass incarceration problem that is disproportionately putting black and brown men behind bars.

Easthampton, MA About Blog Research and advocacy about how mass incarceration affects individuals, communities and the national welfare.

«After spending time with police officers on ride - alongs, meeting with politicians on the state and federal level and grassroots organizations fighting for human rights, it's clear that our criminal justice system is still crippling communities of color through mass incarceration.»

On Thursday at 6 p.m. in Manhattan, Theatre of the Oppressed NYC holds «a festival of legislative theatre confronting mass incarceration and collateral consequences of conviction,» with an advocacy fair followed by «original plays based on community actors» lived experiences of discrimination based on past arrest or conviction.»

Since May 5, when she suggested that black people should be guaranteed lucrative jobs and business licenses in the marijuana industry as a form of «reparations» for the pain and suffering caused during the drug war and its resulting mass incarceration and impoverishment, Nixon has been forced into a running apologia.

Challenging mass incarceration in the City of Care: Punishment, community, and residential placement.

«That money is to be redirected to education, mental health and addiction services — a novel approach that reformers hope will serve as a model in the larger push against mass incarceration.»

An American Marriage gorgeously evokes the New South as it explores mass incarceration on a personal level.

He was awarded a Project Grant through the Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland, OR for his current project Policing Gender that examines mass incarceration from a queer perspective.

This kind of case is the sort that, in my view, showcases why sentencing decision - making can be so challenging for judges and why modern mass incarceration in a consequences of so many choices by so many players in the criminal justice system.

And then when it got more affluent and the work that was being done by those white liberals had less to do with helping professions and social justice, those votes were a little bit more difficult for us because ultimately they haven't really gotten a close look at what mass incarceration is.

The proximate cause was the ongoing relitigation of his administration's anti-crime efforts, seen by a new generation of liberals as spawning an era of racially skewed mass incarceration.

The Greens have called for an end to the war on drugs and mass incarceration which has legalized the oppression of people of color.

«These include mass incarceration in the US, highly repressive policies in Asia, vast corruption and political destabilisation in Afghanistan and West Africa, immense violence in Latin America, an HIV epidemic in Russia, an acute global shortage of pain medication and the propagation of systematic human rights abuses around the world.»

Also at 1 p.m., Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney joins Orange County District Attorney David Hoovler, local police chiefs and community leaders to call for passage of Maloney's legislation to combat the opioid and heroin epidemic and stop mass incarceration of abusers and low - level drug offenders, Orange County District Attorney's office, 40 Matthews St., Goshen.

«The impacts of Rikers Island and the city's mass incarceration policies on our communities here in Harlem can not be overstated,» said Brian Benjamin.

Important look at the system of mass incarceration erected by ICE in this country, which criminalizes and penalizes people who have committed no crime.

«It requires mass incarceration for the stock to go up,» said Credico.

In the year after Ava DuVernay's «13th» and Raoul Peck's «I Am Not Your Negro» went to the Oscars and helped reify conversations around mass incarceration and racism and police brutality and white privilege for countless folks, all three of these films continue that work.

We've stood by as two generations of African American and Hispanic men have faced mass incarceration and the economic, social, political, and racial costs that it inflicts.

Alcatraz is now part of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and offers a unique space to reflect on the impact of mass incarceration today.

The section takes its title from a Melvin Edwards» series of sculptures seen in the gallery, part of a larger series of his Lynch Fragments, which, through their materiality, touch on American identity, how slavery evolved into mass incarceration, and ideas surrounding economies of labor.

Like Ms. Fraser, Cameron Rowland's show at Artists Space engaged a privileged art world with the economic mechanisms behind mass incarceration, focusing on how our society benefits from prisoners» labor.

«At a time when corporations are finally being held accountable for their roles in enabling mass incarceration, it is encouraging to see a company as powerful as Google cutting ties with businesses that profit from incarcerating poor black and brown people,» he told ArsTechnica.