On May 14, 2013 Los Angeles Unified School District banned suspension for “willful defiance," a major victory for unfairly impacted youth of color.
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MOMS (Mothers of Many Sons) is a support group for parents of incarcerated youth, inspired by the author's experience in our Books Not Bars campaign.
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The failed War on Drugs has its own Auto-Tuned music video now. But what else do we need to keep the pressure on and end it once and for all?
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Groups protest San Mateo County plan to build jail on polluted land
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The damaging effects of solitary confinement have been well documented, as has its use for minor, even non-criminal offenses. This torture must stop.
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Is that policy you read about really going to help end the War on Drugs? Use these seven key definitions to figure it out.
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Whenever I look at statistics about the failed War on Drugs, I always hear these lyrics from “White Lines” in my head:
A street kid gets arrested, gonna do some time
He got out three years from now just to commit more crime
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Join Russell Simmons, Harry Belafonte, Jamie Foxx, and 175 other superstars calling for common sense policies that will help stop the mass incarceration crisis.
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Jakada Imani, Executive Director of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, shares his story of the damage the Drug War does to families without making any of us safer.
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70,000 people took part in successful online action demanding that Florida Atlantic University reverse a deal to put GEO Group's name on a new football stadium.
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