The complaint was filed in November by the Labor/Community Strategy Center, the parent organization of the Bus Riders Union, and it alleges that in each year from 2012 to 2015, black riders—who make up about 19 percent of bus and rail riders—were handed more than 50 percent of all fare evasion citations. By Jenna Chandler Read more…
ISAIAH publicly announced the formation of this network of Sanctuary space and support to the community as a non-partisan, interfaith effort. This is a human rights effort. Click Here For Full Article
An overemphasis on criminal justice undermines K-12 education By Lori Bezahler & Allison Brown Despite the deep political divisions laid bare by the November election, there is an emerging consensus that we are spending too much money to put too many Americans behind bars. Our prison and jail population has tripled to about 2.2 million Read more…
The report by Hazen grantees, Communities United, Make the Road New York, and Padres & Jóvenes Unidos, provides a national and state-by-state analysis of the country’s investments in police, prisons, jails, prosecutors, and immigration enforcement. It shows that, from 1982 to 2012, the U.S. increased its spending on the justice system from $90 billion annually Read more…
Among the voting members will be the faith-based group ISAIAH, Black Lives Matter, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Minnesota Tribal Nations. Fox9 Click Here for Full Article