police Archive
Making sure that children don’t enter the adult jails and prisons should be a critical part of how the country thinks about ending mass incarceration, according to leading criminal-defense lawyer... By Jeremy Loudenback This post Bryan Stevenson: Defeating Mass Incarceration …
This month, Liberty Hill Foundation President Shane Goldsmith was awarded a $100,000 fellowship from the Durfee Foundation to focus on youth justice issues in the county. Goldsmith said she will... By Jeremy Loudenback This post Q&A: Liberty Hill President Shane …
Having law enforcement officers in schools is not a new concept. The first school resource officer (SRO) was assigned to a school in Flint, Michigan, in the 1950s. But after several high-profile acts of school violence, such as what occurred …
Yeah, I know, the title makes it appear that was what was written on a ticket, but I’d like you to decide what happened that day. It has been a struggle for me to articulate my words over the past …
By JJIE Staff At the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta, Michael Gandy, now 28, draws from personal experience as a young black teen. He talks to his mentor and “big brother” Austin Scee, 44, about police, mentorship …
In the wake of a very fruitful and energizing conference on 12 Grand Challenges that social workers are tackling in order to promote a more just and equitable society, our sensibilities are jolted by two fatal and questionable police shootings …
BALTIMORE — A scathing Justice Department report on unconstitutional police practices in the city includes a section not often seen in federal findings — a lengthy description of how the department has mistreated youth.
Teaching Moment: Police Brutality and Raising a Black Son By Zerline Hughes | July 8, 2016 I don’t recall ever feeling like this. Aimless. Angry. Depressed. Defeated. Tired. These feelings are synonymous with PTSD and mourning. It took me half …
The news. It’s almost impossible to turn on at this point. There’s the RNC convention, the election, the shooting of police officers, the shooting of unarmed, or surrendered Black individual. There’s shootings of other races and now one of these …
In 2009, my fiancé and I had dinner at my parent’s house. We had each had a glass of wine with dinner and had switched to tea with dessert so by the time we left 2 hours later, everyone was …
