‘A Step Forward’ for Jobseekers with Criminal Records

By Glenn E. Martin

The mass incarceration of minority communities, and the resulting mass reentry and lifetime collateral consequences, have created the “perfect storm” to ensure that criminal record-based employment discrimination serves as a surrogate for race-based discrimination.

Trayvon Martin Shooting: How Stand-Your-Ground Laws Threaten Public Safety

By Hubert Williams

Former Newark Police Director Hubert Williams looks at what it means to "stand your ground."

Broken Justice

By Mansfield Frazier

In March 2009, U.S. Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) proposed the Criminal Justice Commission Act of 2009 “which would create a blue ribbon commission to reevaluate [America’s] criminal justice system and drug policies, and make recommendations for reform.^” The bill has passed the House once but recently failed to achieve a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

The "Missing White Woman Syndrome"

According to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), there are as many as 100,000 active missing persons cases in the United States at any given time. If you went solely by what you read in the media, you’d probably assume that most of these cases involve pretty white women.