Criminal Justice

The Socioeconomic Justice Society believes in...

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."

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Our Bookshelf

Want to Learn More?

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

MICHELLE ALEXANDER

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

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

SHANE BAUER

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

ADAM FOSS

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

VARIOUS

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.

ANGELA DAVIS

A 128-page case for prison abolition.

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