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Two methods for replacing outdated laws in Michigan are being employed in order to address massive overcrowding in the state prisons.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 […]
Michigan has taken on the challenge of redrawing its congressional district lines across the entire state under the leadership of the Michigan Independent Citizens Redistricting Commission (MICRC). The commissioners include thirteen Michiganders from all parts of the state with varying backgrounds, including a woman from Wayne County. The process began with a the introduction of […]
When we arrived on the scene, vehicles lined the cross-street in both directions. We struggled to find parking as police cars block the entry onto Bermis road, so we couldn’t quite see where the rally was taking place, but we knew that it was in well attendance. As we walked toward the prison grounds, joining […]
During the past 2020 November election, more capitol than ever were allocated towards supporting marginalized voters, especially those behind bars, in an attempt to overturn the former head of state. That year Spread The Vote (STV) launched it’s Vote by Mail in Jail program and helped over 800 incarcerated citizens participate in the election by […]
Steadily the needle is pushing away from felony disenfranchisement and toward a more just democracy that values the voices of all of its citizens, regardless of their individual conviction history. In Michigan HB 5336 was introduced by Sarah Anthony at the end of last month in order to allow people in prison to register to […]
Incarcerated Members of the NLA in MDOC’s Macomb and Cotten prison facilities organized this historic event on the front steps of the capitol lawn in Lansing, MI protesting the causes and consequences of mass incarceration in order to promote introduced Second Look Sentencing Legislation. Enjoy this collection of photo’s, full detailed article to come soon.
In the recent years of the the prison resistance movement, new methods for inside organizing have tremendously pushed inside organizers cause forward. People in prison had pleaded for more human conditions and just policies since before the years of the Attica revolution in 1971 that promoted 35 demands around these issues. During the early 70s […]
Chicago Votes’ Silenced Documentary brings together impacted voices in order to address the basic issue of disenfranchisement in our communities. Featured speakers remind viewers that, “America moves in a malicious way” as Illinois was founded on the disenfranchisement and criminalization of Black people like many other states’ legislation concerning voting, follow the national government’s trend […]
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 […]