Why Calling It Trauma Minimizes American Torture
On April 14th, Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed a proposal to established a 5.5 million dollar reparations fund for victims tortured...
On April 14th, Mayor Rahm Emanuel backed a proposal to established a 5.5 million dollar reparations fund for victims tortured...
The events in Ferguson, Missouri set off by the death of Mike Brown created a domino effect in raising awareness...
Glenn Ford, a 64 year-old African American man originally from California, was wrongfully convicted of a murder that took place...
“Stigma is a five dollar word for a two dollar concept. It’s prejudice.” Stigma, a set of negative stereotypes tied...
During the past ten years, I traveled to over 100 jails and prisons in the entire east coast of the...
Credit|Shutterstock I received a letter from Tom Silverstein responding to my article on solitary confinement read by his wife who...
Earlier this year the Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling unveiled plans for an £85 million secure young offender unit in Leicestershire...
The purpose of education in a democratic society is to instill the values of cooperation, fairness, and justice into...
In this age of personal responsibility and expressive individualism we are witnessing a rare expression of solidarity from athletes who...
It has taken a great amount of time for me to process what has happened over the past several weeks...
Everything I say below has been said before, but I want to make it clear that mine is yet another...
With the recent decisions of no indictment involving the police officers responsible for the deaths of Mike Brown, Eric Garner,...
As a Social Worker who works in East Harlem with students who hail from all different ethnic backgrounds the current...
The problems of mass incarceration and prison over-crowding are finding an unusual audience lately. Advocacy for prison reform is gaining...
During these past few weeks we have unfortunately seen high-profile violent killings committed by young people. On October 15th, a...
As I wrote in a article several weeks ago, there are about 25,000 people held in solitary confinement in supermax prison...
Like much of our nation’s civil rights history, the experiences of freedom summer of 1964 can be and have been...
Frank Van Den Bleeken via @BBC Frank Van Den Bleeken is currently serving a life sentence in Belgium for sexual...
A new school year means that disabled college students are adjusting to their new environments, and are making accommodation requests...
In the UK, 89,528 social workers are getting ready to re-register with the regulator for the protected title of social...