"But we have sadly seen … the wins obtained through Brown v Board, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act have been circumvented by failing school systems, the school to prison pipeline, red-lining, gentrification, voter ID laws".
In prison, outside lines of communication aren't a guarantee, so outreach is almost entirely though word of mouth.
In prison, outside lines of communication aren't a guarantee, so outreach is almost entirely through word of mouth.
The 181st Street sidewalks were my prison cafeteria line, offering up the same old gruel again and again.
On the stump in Virginia, Mr McCain was flanked by two former governors, which was all the excuse he needed to tell a joke about two jailbirds in the prison chow line.
That part of the story constitutes Making A Murderer's first episode, but the show's title – not to mention the fact that every contribution from Avery is spoken down what sounds suspiciously like a prison phone line – betrays the fact that this is not the straightforward exoneration story the Innocence Project was hoping for when it started looking into Avery's case.
It turned out that some electrical wiring caught fire outside the prison fence-line.
In this new political environment, the Queensland parliament made the historic move, after more than 50 years, to shift 17-year-old children out of adult prisons, in line with the rest of Australia and with international law.
He suggested that if governors missed these targets they might be "managed out" or stronger jails could act as "improvement partners" and in some cases could be run by a stronger reform prison along the lines of chains of academy schools.
What name they do use, what has become of the babies in prison, where the lines of the prison and the world outside it blur: none of it is as important as the act itself.
