Forgotten Majority

Advocating for the just and humane treatment of those who are incarcerated.

Month: October 2010

  • ‘TEXTBOOK’ TRAGEDY

     On Christmas Eve 1993,  the Scott sisters, Jamie and Gladys, were arrested for luring two men down a road in Forest Mississippi where the men were held at bay with a shotgun and robbed.  Three related male teens – aged 14-18 – confessed to the robbery in turn for light sentences but were made to testify that the sisters were involved.  […]

  • STARTLING STATS

    A February 10th article in the Huffington Post quotes Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, stating that there are more African Americans under correctional control today – in prison or jail, on probation or parole – than were enslaved in 1850, a decade before the Civil War began. This sudden and dramatic mass incarceration of […]