Racial disparities in our criminal justice system are a legacy of our history of racial injustice.
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A Second Chance: Education's Role in Reversing Mass Incarceration | The Atlantic | Irvin Weathersby, Jr.
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“Alternatives” like invasive electronic monitoring turn communities into cages and further exploit people.
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15.5k Likes, 405 Comments - NPR (@npr) on Instagram: “The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and a disproportionate…”
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The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.
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Unit Objectives- Cite strong and thorough textual evidence to support analysis of race and mass incarceration - Draw connections between slavery and the US prison system - Argue the impact of law and order policies on the Black community - Critique media representations of Black men as criminalsUnit...
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Our nation’s mass incarceration habit is morally and financially bankrupting us. This week, America’s inmates are staging an intervention.
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On any given day in the United States, one in 10 Black men in their 30s is in prison or jail. In fact, one out
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Graph showing who profits from mass incarceration. (Hint: It's not just the private prison companies.)
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The country’s prison industry has little regard for where its facilities are located—even if that means building on noxiously polluted ground....
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The majority of people sitting in local jails haven’t been convicted of a crime.
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“Something is wrong with this picture: our values.”
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Sarah Larson writes that the actor and activist Michael K. Williams takes on juvenile mass incarceration—and the poverty and gun laws that exacerbate it—in the Season 6 première of HBO’s documentary series “Vice.”
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Printable / Fillable Versions of this Lesson: These .pdf and .docx files of this lesson plan and all accompanying resources can be printed or downloaded and shared with students to use independently. Full lesson for students [.pdf] Full lesson for students [.docx] "Mass Incarceration" by Bryan Stevenson [.pdf] Lesson Overview: The 1619 Project, inaugurated with a special issue of The New York Times Magazine, challenges us to reframe U.S. history by marking the year when the first enslaved…
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