Campaign to End the Death Penalty Organizing News

Submitted by CEDP on Fri, 2012-05-18 18:51
Author: 
Lily Hughes

CONTENTS

-- Growing momentum against the New Jim Crow

-- The new issue of the New Abolitionist is out!

-- The California SAFE Initiative for death penalty repeal – call announcement.

-- Ways you can support the Campaign to End the Death Penalty

Reaching Out

Tales from death row: Justice for Rodney Reed by Caitlin Adams

Injustice time as of this writing 132,145 hours.  5,506 days.

Last week's Visit Day blog came out of my witnessing of a mother, a father, a wife and children visiting their loved one for one of the last times before his murder by the state of Texas.  It had a profound effect on me. Witnessing a family’s last visit day took on new meaning to me as I chronicle my visits here. RIP Beunka Adams 4/26/12.

Countless Mothers To Spend Day In Prison

By: Diane Dimond
Albuquerque Journal Online
Saturday, May 12, 2012

Hi everyone,

As we honor our mothers this year, it's important to remember the mothers and children who will spend this Sunday apart because of the criminal justice system. Our thoughts are with the mothers who are in prison and those mothers on the outside who have sons and daughters locked up.


Prison

Tales from death row: Justice for Rodney Reed by Caitlin Adams

There are many different prisons. There are the jails, correctional facilities, supermaxes, for-profits, and entities run by the city, county, state and federal governments. Then there are the prisons of poverty, abusive relationships, drug addiction, war, racism, sexism, patriarchy, terminal illness, disabilities and myriad others. And then there is the prison of the mind.

A broken system needs fixing

A new documentary takes on the crisis of racism in the criminal justice system


By: Randi Hensley

A REPORT issued in early April told the horrifying truth of a war being waged within the U.S.: 29 African Americans had been killed by police or security personnel since January, 18 of them definitely unarmed. 


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