prisons

Michelle Alexander: Mass Incarceration is the New Jim Crow

hosted by Tammy Bang Luu on 03/23/2010

A leading civil rights attorney and scholar argues in her new book The New Jim Crow that the mass imprisonment of Blacks and Latinos in the US - and its impact on former prisoners, their families and communities -- has created a new racial caste system in the US.

Michelle Alexander: Book Signing and Discussion of her new book "The New Jim Crow"

by Geoff Ramsey-Ray

Los Angeles -- Thurs: Freedom Hall 4:30 PM; Fri: Eso Won Bookstore 7PM

Willie Pelote Sr: California's Next Budget Battle and Schwarzenegger's War on Unions

hosted by Eric Mann on 01/26/2010

Political Director for one of California's largest public sector unions, AFSCME, raps with Eric Mann about Schwarzenegger's latest proposal to slash the social welfare state and undermine unions and to challenge bloated prison and highway spending.

Graham Boyd: Drug War as the new Jim Crow

hosted by Tammy Bang Luu on 01/26/2004

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

Revolving Parole Door Hits State's Pocketbook

by Geoff Ramsey-Ray
Bob Porterfield, ASSOCIATED PRESS, March 8, 2005

Press Clip: California has a take-all-prisoners approach to x-convicts, a policy so tough that more than half the inmates in state prisons are behind bars for violating parole.

See Attached PDF for full Press Clip.