Prison is racism. Prison is vengeance. Prison is disproportionately inflicted upon descendants of enslaved people.
Prisons & Policing
In 1998, an all-white jury sentenced Reed to die for the murder of Stacey Stites.
The most vulnerable people have the most at stake in questions of policing, but their voices are silenced in data.
The proposal also calls for governments to abolish cash bail.
The private prison industry has formed a new lobbying group called the Day 1 Alliance.
Reed was convicted of raping and murdering Stacey Stites in 1996, but her fiancé has since confessed to the crimes.
Former prisoner and organizer Frank Chapman Jr.’s remarkable memoir offers hope far beyond his own story.
Rodney Reed’s family demands a retrial amid the emergence of substantial new evidence that could exonerate him.
Atatiana Jefferson is the latest example of blaming victims of police violence for their own killings.
After over a decade of torture and being denied the medical care she seeks, Janiah Monroe is suing Illinois prisons.