Attorney General Jeff Sessions claims crime has gone up in some U.S. cities because the Obama administration was too lenient in sentencing offenders. But the facts don’t back him up, according to Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, in Washington. “It’s discouraging that, in the 21st century, we’re making policy decisions based on sound bites and gut instincts rather than evidence,” said Mauer. “There is no lack of evidence to show that mass incarceration has been counter-productive to public safety and devastating for low-income communities of color.”
Between 1968 and the end of the ‘70s, the Bronx was the scene of thousands of fires.
The history of black postal workers demonstrates the critical importance of government employment and a robust public sector.
Bruce Dixon “a Real Soldier” of the Movement
When the United States puts on its global policeman’s uniform, it expects to kill with impunity, just like the cops here at home.
The nation’s best known political prisoner recently noticed “that I could no longer see a single face” among the “river of men passing by” in Pennsylvania’s Mahanoy prison.
