Following the tragic 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, school districts across the country grappled with the question: 鈥淲hat makes a school safe?鈥澛
Following the tragic 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, school districts across the country grappled with the question: 鈥淲hat makes a school safe?鈥澛
Something ugly is happening in America鈥檚 schools. And, it鈥檚 not going away.
Around the world and increasingly in the United States, there鈥檚 a growing consensus that solitary confinement of incarcerated persons is, at best, an ineffective and inhumane practice with little or no carceral benefit and, at worst, outright torture.
If Louisiana were a country, it would have the second-highest incarceration rate in the world, behind only Oklahoma.1
Why should we care about racial profiling?
Marijuana prohibition costs the state and its municipalities an estimated $22 million a year, creates a dangerous backlog at the agency that tests forensic evidence in violent crimes, and needlessly ensnares thousands of people 鈥 disproportionately African Americans 鈥 in the criminal justice system.聽
Detainer requests are a controversial tool that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has used to detain people and push them into the deportation machine.
We tracked 1,430 hate and extremist groups in 2023. Hate has no place in our country.