Black Lives Matter NU
Readings
“an American prison history reading list,” Melanie D. Newport
http://melanienewport.com/2014/04/09/an-american-prison-history-reading-list/
“essential reading,” Prison Culture
http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/essential-pic-reading-list/
“Chicago School-to-Prison Pipeline Fact Sheet,” Project NIA
https://chiyouthjustice.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/chicago-school-to-prison-updated-9-13-w-lgbt.pdf
“COMING OUT OF CONCRETE CLOSETS: A REPORT ON BLACK & PINK’S NATIONAL LGBTQ PRISONER SURVEY”
http://www.blackandpink.org/survey/
“Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected”
http://www.law.columbia.edu/null/download?&exclusive=filemgr.download&file_id=613546
NPR overview of “Black Girls Matter” & interview with Kimberle Crenshaw http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/02/13/384005652/study-black-girls-are-being-pushed-out-of-school
“Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex”
“Assata, An Autobiography,” Assata Shakur
https://libcom.org/files/assataauto.pdf
Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
http://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/soledadbro.html
“LIVES IN PERIL: HOW INEFFECTIVE INSPECTIONS MAKE ICE COMPLICIT IN DETENTION CENTER ABUSE”
“Shakedown: How Deportation Robs Immigrants of their Money and Belongings,” No Mas Muertes
http://nomoredeaths.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ExecSummEnglish.pdf
“For migrants in Arizona who call 911, it’s Border Patrol on the line,” AL Jazeera
“Racial Profiling and Mass Deportation of Black and Latino Men”
“The Context of Radical Prison Praxis,” Dylan Rodriguez from his book Forced Passages
http://rebeccaginsburg.net/Rebecca_Ginsburg/Social_Justice_files/rodriguez_ch2_forced_passages.pdf
Warehoused and Forgotten: Immigrants trapped in our shadow private prison system https://www.aclu.org/warehoused-and-forgotten-immigrants-trapped-our-shadow-private-prison-system
Media/Visualizations
“visualizations,” Prison Culture
http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/visualizations/
an infographic on children being pushed into prisons
http://www.suspensionstories.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/STPPgraphic.jpg
Tavis Smiley’s commentary on the infographic
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/tavissmiley/tsr/education-under-arrest/school-to-prison-pipeline-fact-sheet/
“Prison Industrial Complex: A Racist Assault on Humanity | Joel Northam | Resistance Report Segment”
Mass Incarceration in the US Video
Private prisons - the most profitable real estate in the US?
“The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality” | Ta-Nehisi Coates | The Atlantic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQo-yYhExw0
FAQs
What is the Prison Industrial Complex?
http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/what-is-the-pic/
What is the school-to-prison pipeline (STPP)?
https://www.aclu.org/fact-sheet/what-school-prison-pipeline
What is Transformative Justice?
http://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/transformative-justice/