What I Took from ‘The New Jim Crow’

by | Aug 10, 2016 | Guest Post

Did you think that Jim Crow ended in 1965 with the Voting Rights Act? Think again. Michelle Alexander argues in The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness that racism is so pernicious that it doesn’t go away. It just changes form.In this book,...

Mass Incarceration in the USA

by | Jul 21, 2016 | Video

Do you need a crash course on mass incarceration in the United States? Take a few minutes to watch the video below. Organizations like Redemption Housing are necessary because our prison systems, by and large, exist to punish rather than rehabilitate. This one of...