Supporters of political prisoner Kevin Rashid Johnson are now calling for help in defense of Johnson who the call states has been “retaliated” against by prison authorities for his continued activism and support of other prisoners. From the call: “On May 21, 2018, Kevin Johnson was retaliated against for speaking up on behalf of a…
Read moreSouth Carolina Prisoners Reflect on Causes of Violence In Prisons and Solutions
The following was submitted by Jared Ware whose information and contact follow the interview. The deadliest incident of violence in a United States prison in a quarter century took place at the Lee Correctional Institution in South Carolina on April 15, 2018. According to multiple reports, including SCDC Director Bryan Stirling’s own, prison guards and…
Read moreAcademics In Cars #3: Dr. Natasha Pratt-Harris Talks Baltimore, Police Training and Ivory Towers
Dr. Natasha Pratt-Harris, the only Black woman from Baltimore, working in Baltimore as a Criminologist, was our guest academic in the car and took us for a ride around Baltimore discussing how her own history growing up there informs her current work. That work involves community engaged police training and work within and about the…
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