Prison

Nina Moreno: Children's Defense Fund takes on the cradle-to-prison pipeline

Children's Defense Fund organizer breaks down why a black boy born in 2001 has a 1 in 3 chance of going to prison in his lifetime and a Latino boy a 1 in 6 chance? What are the conditions facing children of color and poor children that put them on the pipeline to prison rather than to college and good jobs? And what is the Children's Defense Fund doing about it.

The Omnivorous Police/Prison State and the California "Budget Crisis"

By Damon Azali-Rojas

So let's look at how the police/prison growth industry has been affected by the economic downturn.

At a time when the California government can't pay its bills or cut welfare checks to the neediest, a time when it is sending IOUs for tax returns, it is driving forward (guns a blazin') with the largest prison construction project in the world. We're talking about AB 900 and its evil twin ABX1-10.

Barbara Becnel: Remembering Stanley Tookie Williams

Barbara Cottman Becnel, close friend of Stanley Tookie Williams, talks about the final days of ex-gang member's life. 

Kim McGill: Fight against gang injunctions and the California gang database

Los Angeles's Youth Justice Coalition representative Kim McGill takes a closer look at 100+ years of racist anti-gang measures in California

Ruthie Gilmore: California prison boom and the conditions of women prison

Radical geographer of the political economy of prisons in the neoliberalized state of California, Ruthie Gilmore, exposes the incarceration of women in California's exploding prison system.

Graham Boyd: Drug War as the new Jim Crow

ACLU Civil Rights attorney Graham Boyd speaks on the fight against the War on Drugs as the civil rights struggle of the 21st Century.

Pete White: "Safer Cities" and the criminalization of homelessness

Director of Los Angeles Community Action Network, Pete White, says cleaning up downtown means a police assault on homeless people…

Rose Braz and Guillermo Mayer: Budgets, stimulus, prisons and buses

Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) spokesperson Rose Braz and Public Advocates civil rights attorney Guillermo Mayor unmask California's budget crisis, prison juggeraut, and future of public transportation.

Stacy Perlata and Skipp Townsend: Crips & Bloods: Made in America

Offering unprecendented access into the world of active gangs, a new film looks at culture and context for the Bloods and Crips...