"The Prison Policy Initiative produces cutting edge research to expose the broader harm of mass criminalization, and then sparks advocacy campaigns to create a more just society."
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Oct 30, 1967: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy Jailed in Birmingham
Read a copy of a letter Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote from prison
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The World Prison Brief is an online database providing free access to information on prison systems around the world. It is a unique resource, which supports evidence-based development of prison policy and practice globally.
By Joshua Rovner
Despite long-term declines in youth incarceration, Black youth remain vastly more likely to be incarcerated than their white peers. Black youth are almost five times as likely as their white peers to be held in juvenile facilities
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The Color of Justice: Racial and Ethnic Disparity in State Prisons - from The Sentencing Project
Dec 1, 1955: Rosa Parks Arrested
Rosa Parks: Early Life, Roots of Activism, Arrest and more
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After 27 years, Nelson Mandela walks out of prison a free man
Click here to read Letters Nelson Mandela wrote his wife Winnie from prison
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"Headquartered in Geneva, the capital of the international human rights system, the Global Detention Project (GDP) is committed to ending arbitrary and harmful migration-related detention practices around the world, and to ensure respect for the fundamental human rights of all migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers."
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