Building a movement to abolish the exclusion clause would be a major step in changing public attitudes about incarcerated people.
Bringing Down the New Jim Crow
Two leading voices in the fight against mass incarceration: Michelle Alexander and Susan Burton discuss Jeff Sessions and the war on drugs.
Jails admit nearly 12 million people every year. Yet they are largely off the radar of critics of mass incarceration.
A journey into the world of racial hurt, degradation and separateness holds out the fragile possibility of redemption.
Black "innocence" always has to be proven and depends on attaining a "respectability" defined by white mores and the white gaze.
This American Hustle allows politicians, the media, and the public to wash their collective hands of actually doing anything except demanding that the lazy poor step up to the American Dream home plate and take their swings like everyone else.
While any effort to stop mass incarceration must be expansive in scope and size, it ultimately has to be accessible to those directly affected.
Judicial and legislative victories against stop-and-frisk practices do not address how individual fears harden into iron bars of segregation.
What do the war on drugs and market-oriented education reform have in common?
While young black males are disenfranchised for life for dealing modest amounts of weed, BP can expect to be back to business as usual despite its horrific crimes.