Durrel Douglas is the current democratic candidate for Michigan’s House of Representative District 8 running for the state primary. His campaign centers those within his district and the issues that impact constituents. Choosing to host his launch event at YumVillage, Douglas describes his district: running from downtown Detroit through Highland Park, Hazel Park, Ferndale and […]
Two methods for replacing outdated laws in Michigan are being employed in order to address massive overcrowding in the state prisons. For the past decade the legislature has been heavily resistant to passing criminal justice reforms, like HB 5666, claiming it’s “too controversial” to touch. The majority of Michigan law makers are seemingly more comfortable […]
Outside of the 6th District’s Federal court dozens of people: family members, advocates and organizational leads came together in support of those wrongfully convicted and over-sentenced in Michigan’s Departmet of Corrections (MDOC). New York based Shawanna Vaughn, prisoner right’s advocate and founder of Silent Cry, traveled across the region to host this rally in support of MDOC captives […]
Three years, ago the 2018 National Prison Strike united incarcerated people across 17 states around 10 demands. In order to elevate those demands, incarcerated organizers promoted four actions for inside participants to engage in: work strikes, sit-ins, boycotts and hunger strikes. The outside world took notice worldwide responding to prisoners call to post their demands […]
As an ignorant US born person, an ongoing war in a foreign land felt like the unfortunate repercussion of my citizenship. While captive in this mindset, foreign regions promoted in corporate media stories as terror threats were represented as “places of endless war”. This is the position that the Middle East holds for many, but […]
I avoided going to the place that one has to be in order to do the research and reflection required to write this piece. My passion for umoja pushed me to love enough to share through my fear. Now that we as a community have felt the impact of judicial validation, we realize that a […]
Ohio Corrections is a fucked up place, but what state’s department of (rehabilitation &) corrections isn’t that chooses to maintain the following conditions: Classifying stamps as contraband Placing people in solitary confinement for five years consistently Placing mentally ill and developmentally disabled people in solitary confinement Blocking individuals placed in restrictive solitary confinement from filing […]
Without An Aggressive Mass Decarceration Effort a Second Wave Will Devastate the United States Black August has been recognized by the prison class as a month of resistance since the early 1970s. The demands of prisoners have not changed much over the decades. Over the last few years, as people in prison expand their networks […]
The Coronavirus pandemic has had a dramatic impact on the lives of people all over the world, especially those in prison. While the CDC has posted their recommendations for all people to follow, prisoners have no freedom to protect themselves from the spread. People in prison are limited in their ability to keep a safe […]
JLS National Prison Strike Calls Cover Corona Before the conditions of the word crumbled; when people were allowed to gather, rally and protest; prisoners around the world shifted the mass consciousness away from any last remaining tendencies from the “tough-on-crime” era. A spotlight beamed into the darkest corners of society as people in prison in […]