In today’s post, Erica Sterling, a PhD student in the Department of History at Harvard University, interviews Kelly Lytle Hernandez about her new book City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
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From Prison to Ph.D.: The Redemption and Rejection of Michelle Jones | The New York Times
Michelle Jones was released last month after serving more than two decades in an Indiana prison for the murder of her 4-year-old son. The very next day, she arrived at New York University, a promising Ph.D. student in American studies.
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I was jailed as a child. I know it’s possible to reintegrate into society with support | The Guardian
We need better access to reentry programs that offer support for people who have lived every day of their adulthood behind bars.
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‘I worked as a prosecutor. Then I was arrested. The experience made a man out of me. It made a black man out of me’ | The Guardian
Paul Butler, author of the acclaimed book Chokehold, worked as a criminal prosecutor. Then he himself was arrested
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Are We Returning to Jim Crow? | The Root
When Donald Trump campaigned on the slogan “Make America Great Again,” many of us saw it for what it was—coded language for taking the mask—or the hood, as it were—off of white supremacy.
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Getting Therapy Instead of Serving Time
A whole-family approach shows promise in keeping young offenders out of prison.
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Brothers Behind Bars
What happens when the only life you’ve known has been in an institution?
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Children with Incarcerated Parents often Suffer In Silence
Kayla Bowyer was 3 months old when her mother went to jail. Her 45-year-old grandmother took care of her, and Bowyer lived with “Grams” until she was 18.
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Black Incarceration hasn’t been this low in a generation
Throughout the presidential campaign season, both Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton have been excoriated for supporting the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which critics charge is fueling mass incarceration of African Americans.
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The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
American politicians are now eager to disown a failed criminal-justice system that’s left the U.S. with the largest incarcerated population in the world. But they’ve failed to reckon with history. Fifty years after Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s report “The Negro Family” tragically helped create this system, it’s time to reclaim his original intent.
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