The Jim Crow Convictions’
Louisiana Considered: A documentary looks at Jim Crow-era laws ...
Al Jazeera News Senior Producer Jeremy Young discusses “The Jim Crow Convictions,” a documentary by Al Jazeera's Fault Lines and The Lens ...
To Be Young, Black, and Powerless: Disenfranchisement in the New ...
Under current felon disenfranchisement laws, nearly 6.1 million Americans are denied the right to vote.4 Although once convicted of a felony, the majority of ...
Black Codes - Other Jim Crow Information
(In Virginia during 1780-1864, 1,418 enslaved people were convicted of crimes; 91 of these convictions were for insurrection and 346 for murder.) The ...
The New Jim Crow - NH Governor's Office
The New Jim Crow. Mass Incarceration in the. Age of Colorblindness. Revised ... 2 million, with drug convictions accounting for the majority of the increase.
Racial Critiques of Mass Incarceration: Beyond the New Jim Crow
James Forman Jr. ... This article critiques the claim of some scholars that the American criminal justice system is a new form of "Jim Crow," because of the ...
A History of Discrimination in Jury Selection - Equal Justice Initiative
The same all-white juries that refused to hold white people accountable for killing Black people readily convicted Black people and imposed severe punishments ...
Louisiana strikes down one of the last remaining Jim Crow laws
The new law now requires juries to have an unanimous decision for a conviction, which ended this 138 year Jim Crow practice. “This would ...
All or Nothing - UW School of Law - University of Washington
In April 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Jim Crow-era law in Louisiana that allowed convictions of individuals accused of serious ...
a punishment for crime…” allowed the government to take advantage of people convicted of crimes by returning them to enslavement or involuntary servitude.
Appeals court upholds Mississippi Jim Crow-era voting restriction law
In its ruling, the court noted that the state designed the restriction to disenfranchise those convicted of “black crimes” but while maintaining ...
American History, Race, and Prison | Vera Institute
... convicted of felonies. Adamson, “Punishment After Slavery ... See Western, “The Prison Boom,” 2007, 30-36; and Alexander, The New Jim Crow, 2010, 44-45.
Full 5th Circuit Rehears Challenge to Mississippi's Jim Crow-Era ...
The state constitutional provision at issue in the case — known as Section 241 — strips the right to vote for life from anyone convicted of ...
Brandon Jackson, profiled in our film "The Jim Crow Convictions" with The Lens, could be freed when he goes before Louisiana's parole board ...
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. A National Struggle . The Supreme ...
Later that same year, however, the same court upheld the conviction of two blacks by an all white jury in Virginia v. Rives. The Court argued that the ...
Mississippi's Jim Crow-era voting law struck down by federal ...
2-1 ruling on policy that revoked voting rights for certain people with felony convictions is surprise victory from conservative court.
Jim Crow | The Marshall Project
A rare look inside one case. ... DeSantis made a spectacle of arresting voters with felony convictions. Now, some eligible voters are opting out of midterms even ...
Georgia activists fight for voting rights for people with felony ...
Shadow of Jim Crow: Georgia activists fight for voting rights for people with felony convictions ... They met in a prison choir called, in what ...
The New Jim Crow's Equal Protection Potential
The New Jim Crow has also been cited to explain the unfair collateral consequences faced by those convicted of drug crimes, as well as convictions' ...
Feminism in the Jim Crow Justice System: Hattie Brazier Battles the ...
The Supreme Court's decision in 1935 to overturn the convictions of the Scottsboro boys because African Americans were excluded from sitting on juries finally ...
Supreme Court rejects challenge to Jim Crow-era Mississippi voting ...
The state constitutional amendment from 1890 was intended to disproportionately remove voting rights from Black people convicted of certain ...