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Lawsuit Challenges Forced Agricultural Labor at Angola

September 20, 2023

On Saturday, the Promise of Justice Initiative (PJI) and Rights Behind Bars, two nonprofit advocacy groups, filed a lawsuit against the Louisiana Department of Corrections and Prison Enterprises challenging the practice of forced agricultural labor at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, or Angola.

VOTE Speaks Out Against ANTIGRAVITY Magazine's Attack on OPPRC & Help Not Handcuffs

October 7, 2021

Bruce Reilly, J.D., Vice President of Voice of the Experienced VOTE took to social media last weekend to criticize ANTIGRAVITY Magazine for a story about the Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition's (OPPRC) Help Not Handcuffs (HNH) campaign that was based on misinformation. Help Not Handcuffs is an effort to create a non-police crisis response team […]

SCOTUS Rules No Mandatory Retrials for Those Convicted by Jim Crow Juries But There Is Still Hope

May 19, 2021

Louisiana's incarceration system, like most incarceration systems in this country, has always been racist, prioritizing putting Black men in jail over actual justice. This is made obvious by the state's prison population being disproportionately Black and through racist laws like the one that created Jim Crow Juries. Jim Crow Juries were legalized by an 1880 […]

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