“We don’t look at the crime. We are looking at predetention when you have not been convicted of a crime. We didn’t make the system. The system says, ‘You are innocent until proven guilty.’”
The African American perfectionists offered “faith” instead of “hope”—emphasizing the struggle to realize a vision of justice rather than passive assurance that it would prevail.
The 2018 Farm Bill okayed the production of hemp, removed it from the DEA's list of Controlled Substances and changed the marijuana landscape — that doesn’t erase criminalization’s disastrous impact on the working class.
These inspiring developments serve as powerful reminders that by working together in pursuit of progress, we can manifest meaningful criminal legal reform that makes our country more humane, more just, and more democratic.
“This is not the solution to mass incarceration,” Rep. Ryan Clancy stressed. “This is harm reduction to the incredible damage that we do inherently when we incarcerate people.”
Reshaping the Kansas Technical Institute’s campus into an actual prison provides a perspective on what it means when, over time, whole populations are functionally criminalized.
Jomo Muhammad and Justin A. Davis
Waging Nonviolence
From food justice to energy to housing, the freedom of political prisoners should be a demand, and organizations should create time to take action on behalf of political prisoners.
Mansa Musa interview with David Gaspar
Real News Network
The blunt fact about the cash bail system in the US is that it creates a two-tier system of “justice” in which the presumption of innocence is denied to people who have not been convicted of anything but the “crime” of being poor.
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