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End Mass Incarceration Week

From April 5-13, 2014, SCSJ will be honoring End Mass Incarceration Week.
What is End Mass Incarceration Week? It is a week set aside to…

Brutality of the Immigration Detention System

Oscar Quintero, Currently Detained Inside Etowah County Detention Center, Speaks Up on the Brutality of the Immigration Detention System Immigrant Rights Groups Block Entrance to…

Truth: 'No One Is Disposable'


Recently, Reina Gossett and Dean Spade of Sylvia Rivera Law Project came together to co-facilitate a lively and brilliant online conversation about how a prison…

Spring Intern Spotlight: Adé Oni

It’s hard to ignore injustice when it runs around exposed, loud (at times), and reckless always. I came to consider myself a part of the…

Crime does pay, but for whom?


Source: Online-Paralegal-Degree.org
There are 2.3 million people living behind bars in the United States
● The US prison system costs the federal government $55 billion…

Facts and figures on incarceration in America

Facts and Figures on Incarceration in America (via Moyers & Company) Over the last four decades, America’s prison population has increased dramatically. This tremendous growth…