resources on incarceration
Overview of Incarceration in the US today
The School to Prison Pipeline: How schools lead low income youth into prison
Can felons vote?
Privatization of Prisons
- “Slammed: Welcome to the Age of Incarceration” (Jennifer Gonnerman, Mother Jones Magazine, July/August 2008)
- “New High In U.S. Prison Numbers, Growth Attributed To More Stringent Sentencing Laws” (N.C. Aizenman, Washington Post, 2/29/08)
- Readings on Women and Incarceration
- Giving Life, Wearing Shackles and Chains, Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 7/12/09
The School to Prison Pipeline: How schools lead low income youth into prison
- “Hard Time Out” (David Goodman, Mother Jones Magazine, July/August 2008)
- NAACP Report
- ACLU Talking Points
Can felons vote?
- “Locked Out” (Justine Sharrock, Mother Jones Magazine, July/August 2008)
- Slavery to Prison: Disenfranchisement Plagues America’s Ballot Box (December 1, 2005, Maya Harris, ACLU)
Privatization of Prisons