~ Wrong man was executed in Texas ~

Another example of how our justice has failed us as a people…

http://news.yahoo.com/wrong-man-executed-texas-probe-says-051125159.html

~ WHAT IS THE PIC? WHAT IS ABOLITION? ~

Critical Resistance’s take on what is the Prison Industrial Complex and Abolition.

http://criticalresistance.org/about/not-so-common-language

~ Birthing Behind Bars ~

This is a national campaign to address pregnancy and other reproductive justice issues in prison. 

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6220/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=10425

~ Sybrina Fulton’s (Trayvon Martin’s mother) words on Mother’s Day ~

Powerful and sincere words from Sybrina Fulton on her first Mother’s Day without her son, Trayvon Martin.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=m_4HHcOHBfU

~ North Carolina: Get Children out of the Adult System ~

This Thursday, Raise the Age North Carolina will lobby NC legislature to keep NC children out of adult prisons.

YOUR SUPPORT IS NEEDED!

Lets help them reach 5000 signatures.

http://www.change.org/petitions/north-carolina-get-children-out-of-the-adult-system

~ The Stanford Prison Experiment ~

This experiment from 1971 is harrowing and really important to read about!

http://www.prisonexp.org/psychology/1

Locking Down an American Workforce: Prison Labor as the Past and Future of American “Free-Market” Capitalism

The privatization of the US prison system resembles the days of past:

http://truth-out.org/op-ed/item/8637-locking-down-an-american-workforce-prison-labor-as-the-past-and-future-of-american-capitalism

~ From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin: How Black Women Turn Grief Into Action ~

Women in the frontlines

http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2012/04/03/from-emmett-till-to-trayvon-martin-how-black-women-turn-grief-into-action/

Collective Sun: Altar Space Quilt

~ A Good Read from Forbes Magazine ~

- Worth the Read -

 http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/08/23/elite-privilege-and-the-prison-industrial-complex/