Women make up seven-percent of the total incarcerated population(largely for drug-related offenses); however thirty-percent of incarcerated women are Black. Similarly to our male counterparts, Black women are three times as likely to be incarcerated than White women.
A Debt Never Paid: The Difficulties of Being a Black Female Ex-convict
Reviewed by Electra Telesford
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June 04, 2014
Rating: 5
Legal Scholar Michelle Alexander has been committed to sharing her findings about the explosion of the prison population since the release of her bestselling book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Here is an excerpt of an interview she gave PBS' Frontline back in 2013.
Michelle Alexander Explains the Consequences of Mass Incarceration
Reviewed by For Harriet
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May 05, 2014
Rating: 5
A trans woman who was imprisoned for manslaughter is to be released early.
CeCe McDonald, who was found guilty of second degree manslaughter, stabbed Dean Schmitz in an apparent case of self defense in June 2011. After pleading guilty, she was sentenced to 41 months in prison.
According to the Minnesota Department Of Corrections, McDonald will be freed on 13 January - just 19 months into her 41 month sentence.
CeCe McDonald to be Released from Prison
Reviewed by For Harriet
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January 05, 2014
Rating: 5
African-American women are now less likely to go to prison than in 2000 but are still three times more likely to be sentenced to jail time than Caucasian counterparts according to a report released by The Sentencing Project.
Reports Show Less African-American Women Incarcerated
Reviewed by Anonymous
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March 27, 2013
Rating: 5
. Here is an excerpt of an interview she gave PBS' Frontline back in 2013.
