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CRIMINAL JUSTICE

The fight for jail reform is far from over. Here are a few ways to get involved

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The fight for jail reform is far from over. Here are a few ways to get involved

Carolyn Copeland
CRIMINAL JUSTICE

How a hip-hop artist and a dancer are using art to reform the L.A. jail system

Next week, two Los Angeles artists who have spent years advocating for change in the city’s prison...

Chanté Griffin, Prism Guest Writer


CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Los Angeles DA candidates offer different approaches to jail reform. Who will get the top job?

Next week, Los Angeles voters will decide among three vastly different candidates for the powerful position of...

Carolyn Copeland
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CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Care first, jail last: The fight to stop LA from using jails as mental health treatment centers

On any given day, the Los Angeles County jail system incarcerates more than 5,000 people living...

Francisco Aviles Pino, Prism Guest Writer

Selma to LA: How civil rights history inspired modern criminal justice reform and Measure R

Since the 1920s, a small group of local civil rights leaders in Selma, Alabama, fought a racist...

Patrisse Cullors

Intro: The Los Angeles ballot initiative that could reform the world's largest jail system

As the largest jailer in the world, incarcerating an average of around 17,000 people each day, the...

Ashton Lattimore

Survivors of Japanese internment speak out against immigrant detention

Japanese survivors of internment camps and people currently being targeted for deportation have been organizing together for...

Tina Vasquez
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