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Placing individuals in solitary confinement is a way to show the inmate who’s in control. Many individuals have mental breakdowns or even commit suicide.
In a recent study, the ACLU-VA asks Governor Ralph Northam to sharply limit the use of solitary confinement. The ACLU report deems the practice is 'overused' in Virginia. The ACLU said reforms put in place by the state since 2011 are a “step forward” in reducing its use but don’t go far enough.
This blog post was written by our Paralegal and former Office Assistant Marcie Hampton.
I have always been fascinated by the political process, but it wasn’t until recently that I realized it was something in which I could involve myself directly.
This article was originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch on Aug.
Victim blaming is deeply ingrained in anti-black racism. Some people attempt to justify our inhumanity by saying “they didn’t comply” and downplaying the violence and racism black people experience every day to a figment of our imagination.
Harvard public policy profess spoke about the head and the heart, how they depend on each other, without one, the other collapses. Then he gave us all a philosophy that is the basis of this article, and will be the basis of all my future activism: “It takes the head and the heart to move the hands.”
