Forgotten Majority

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

Month: September 2011

  • Plea For Compassionate Release

    Grant compassionate release for Katherine Telemachos I am writing this letter to support a conditional medical release for Katherine Telemachos #710098. She is currently incarcerated and is dying. She has been incarcerated since 1991 at the age of 19 and has been in the custody of the Florida Department of Corrections for approximately 20 years. […]

  • THE RESURRECTION OF JIM CROW

    Contributing Editor Richard P. Burton, Sr., Director October 2011                          PROJECT R.E.A.C.H., INC.   In the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court legitimized the “Jim Crow” system of segregation that had been imposed on Blacks in the decades following the Civil War. Despite the fact that  segregation laws violated the 14th and 15th […]

  • LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE FITTING OR FOUL?

    New York Times   9/12/11 Authored by Esther Brown   Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty                                                                                                                                                            THE MISUSE OF LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE “The Supreme Court ruled last year that it is cruel and unusual punishment to sentence a juvenile to life without parole when the crime is short of homicide. In the majority […]

  • TIME TO BREAK THE SILENCE

                                   PROJECT R.E.A.C.H., INC.                                      A non-profit 501 (c)(3) (Re-enfranchisement) Organization The lips of many leaders have remained tight and voices silent, relative to the horrific conditions surrounding the criminal/juvenile justice system, a system which continues to plague many African American, Hispanic and poor communities throughout the United States.  We have reached out to […]