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Children have a right to access public education, regardless of immigration status!

As the school year comes to a close, some students can’t wait to leave the classroom. Some students, though, are still waiting to get in.…

FICPM on the vanguard of ending mass incarceration

SCSJ Criminal Justice Reform attorney Daryl Atkinson is a steering committee member of the Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted People’s Movement (FICPM). In the following radio…

Give Local America lets you help SCSJ TWICE as much!

You support social justice issues like voting rights, criminal justice reform, environmental justice, and human rights – and you’re not alone! We do too. Right…

Cinco de Mayo and The Battle of Puebla

Cinco de Mayo and the Battle of Puebla
Mexican Courage Carries the Day
By Christopher Minster of Association of Mexicans in North Carolina, Inc. (AMEXCAN)…

Youth Justice Project

No (More) Youth in the Criminal System

In its upcoming legislative session, the North Carolina General Assembly is poised to again take up a Republican-sponsored bill that would expose more youth to criminal prosecution…

Clean Slate Success in Durham

What is Clean Slate work and why is it important?
Involvement in the criminal justice system has negative side effects beyond a court case and…

Healthy Food Access, Where?

Which places do you envision “need access to nutritious food”?  Who do you believe has the right to access nutritious food? My guess is that…

Anti-Shackling: Reproductive Rights Behind Bars

As prison abolitionists work towards a world without prisons, public health practitioners and prison reformers must work alongside them to expose and mitigate the severe…

UNC journalism students explore race class and education in Durham, NC

There is no direct means by which a student becomes a dropout, unemployed or a criminal; there is no single decision, policy or process directly…

Helping Youth Honor Sexual Assault Awareness Month

April is so many things to so many people: the beginning of Spring. A chance to honor American Poetry Month. A chance to observe End…

Youth Justice Project

Selina Garcia: Multi-System Failure

At 7:30 a.m. on a Friday morning, I began to receive a flurry of text messages from Selina, a 17-year-old high school student in Wake…

From the daughter of a prisoner

For the final entry in our End Mass Incarceration Week blog series, SCSJ intern Nadiah Porter gives us an intimate look into her life growing…