Californians voted against banning slave labor in prisons. A few months later, over 1,000 incarcerated firefighters were deployed to save the very state that upheld their exploitation
Gov. Mike Parson’s racist and hypocritical pardon history reflects the U.S. criminal justice system’s insidious bedrock of white supremacy and Black dehumanization
Paramount to creating a more humane justice system—and therefore a more equitable and just society, free of systemic barriers—is eliminating the widespread use of solitary confinement, a practice that creates rather than mitigates harm