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Criminal Justice

The Socioeconomic Justice Society believes in...

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  • Increasing number of public offenders and their wages.

  • Increasing number of judges and courthouses to ensure no backlog of cases.

  • Increasing checks on judges - they have too much power.

  • No domestic federal military/para-military intervention except to protect rights and protect against discrimination.

  • Get rid of all prison sentences for drugs, as well as create more drug rehabilitation centers.

  • Eliminate solitary confinement.

  • Make calls to families at prisons FREE OF CHARGE.

  • Defunding the prison-industrial complex as well as eliminating private prisons and getting rid of government contracts for number of beds filled.

  • Mandating higher wages for prison guards as well as incentivize nonviolent tactics.

  • Increase public access to prisons to improve transparency of what really goes on as well as give journalists free passes to enter prisons whenever they want.

  • phase out prison system in favor of rehabilitation centers

  • Demilitarizing the police

“Stop thinking about how we should reform the existing systems… how can we re-imagine the system and make a new, better one? It’s about creativity."

Links

Our Bookshelf

Want to Learn More? 

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Required reading. One of the most fundamental and ground-breaking books about racial inequality in every stage of arrest to incarceration. 

MICHELLE ALEXANDER

13th

AVA DUVERNAY

The movie version of The New Jim Crow for people that have: Netflix

and don't have: time to read a book.

American Prison

An investigative journalist gets hired to work for $9 as prison guard in Louisiana. His story and interviews.

SHANE BAUER

A Prosecutor's Vision for a Better Justice System

A 15 minute TED Talk detailing a new vision for prosecutors' and DA offices.

ADAM FOSS

The Marshall Project

Not a book or video, but rather an online journal that publishes op eds written by inmates, guards, and other people of interest. Fascinating and insightful.

VARIOUS

Are Prisons Obsolete?

A 128-page case for prison abolition.

ANGELA DAVIS

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