A new documentary on Black radical activism will be screened at Visual Studies Workshop on Thursday night, with a talkback by activist Jalil Muntaqim.
mass incarceration
Posted inNews & Opinion
Forfeiting bail
Bail by its very nature is inequitable. People who have the cash to post it are able to buy their freedom — even if it’s temporary — while people of limited means have to stay in jail. Examples of the disparity aren’t hard to find. On July 18, a man was booked into the Monroe […]
Posted inNews & Opinion
Activists press state Democrats on mass incarceration
Groups across New York are calling on the Assembly, Senate, and Governor Andrew Cuomo to pass and sign bills that would legalize marijuana, eliminate cash bail, restore voting rights to incarcerated people and parolees, and reform parole and solitary confinement policies.
Posted inNews & Opinion
Colleges support prisoner education
Despite widely known and draconian facts about the prison system in the US, Joshua Dubler says that he’s optimistic that public attitudes about the justice system and the treatment of incarcerated people are at a turning point. “We’re in a good moment,” says Dubler, assistant professor of religion at the University of Rochester. Higher education […]
