Reaching Out

Tales from death row: Justice for Rodney Reed by Caitlin Adams

Injustice time as of this writing 132,145 hours.  5,506 days.

Last week's Visit Day blog came out of my witnessing of a mother, a father, a wife and children visiting their loved one for one of the last times before his murder by the state of Texas.  It had a profound effect on me. Witnessing a family’s last visit day took on new meaning to me as I chronicle my visits here. RIP Beunka Adams 4/26/12.

Countless Mothers To Spend Day In Prison

By: Diane Dimond
Albuquerque Journal Online
Saturday, May 12, 2012

Hi everyone,

As we honor our mothers this year, it's important to remember the mothers and children who will spend this Sunday apart because of the criminal justice system. Our thoughts are with the mothers who are in prison and those mothers on the outside who have sons and daughters locked up.


Prison

Tales from death row: Justice for Rodney Reed by Caitlin Adams

There are many different prisons. There are the jails, correctional facilities, supermaxes, for-profits, and entities run by the city, county, state and federal governments. Then there are the prisons of poverty, abusive relationships, drug addiction, war, racism, sexism, patriarchy, terminal illness, disabilities and myriad others. And then there is the prison of the mind.

A broken system needs fixing

A new documentary takes on the crisis of racism in the criminal justice system


By: Randi Hensley

A REPORT issued in early April told the horrifying truth of a war being waged within the U.S.: 29 African Americans had been killed by police or security personnel since January, 18 of them definitely unarmed. 


Racial Bias in Death Penalty Cases: A North Carolina Test

A judge gives life to an extraordinary new law designed to remedy the state's long history of prejudice in capital trials.


Credit: AP IMAGES
The execution chamber at Central prison in Raleigh, N.C
By: Andrew Cohen
The Atlantic
Monday, April 23, 2012

If we still want to have a sound and sober national conversation about race and justice, if we still are eager to use a single case as a totem for what we perceive to be wrong or unjust about the criminal justice system, perhaps we all would be better served by paying attention to what's happening in North Carolina to a man named Marcus Robinson than we are by paying attention to what's happening in Florida to a man named George Zimmerman.


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