by lindaoppenheim | Feb 6, 2020 | Documents
The Color of Change and the Norman Lear Center at USC’s study of crime television shows, “Normalizing Injustice,” found that the programs play a part in shaping skewed societal perceptions of the criminal justice system. The shows depicted wrongful...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 11, 2019 | Events
Albert Woodfox, prison activist and Black Panther, survived more than four decades of solitary confinement in Louisiana’s notorious Angola state prison—punished for a crime he did not commit. In his new book, Solitary, he tells his story of struggle, transformation,...
by lindaoppenheim | Apr 4, 2019 | Events
Life, Death, Life Again: Children Sentenced to Die in Prison; a documentary play by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg will be presented on Wednesday, April 10, 6:00 – 9:00 PM at the Rutgers Law School, 123 Washington Street, Baker Court Room, Newark, NJ 07102. Panel and...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 20, 2019 | Events
Ryan Haygood, the president and CEO of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, will discuss the “Movement for the 94%” at the next meeting of Indivisible Princeton on Monday, March 25 at 7:30 p.m. at UUCP Princeton, 50 Cherry Hill Road, Princeton. The movement is...
by lindaoppenheim | Feb 27, 2019 | Events, The New Jim Crow
Eight formerly incarcerated individuals will be take part in a panel conversation on the denial of voting rights within the American criminal justice system. The event will be catered by Mahmoun’s.
