Category: justice
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Will you read “The New Jim Crow” with us?
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness is a book that has rapidly become mandatory reading for anyone interested in issues of justice in America. I’m just a chapter in and am already impressed by Michelle Alexander’s ability to paint a complicated picture with gripping clarity. Pastor Rich Johnson of Sanctuary…
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Men in Prison
The following graphic comes from Philip N. Cohen at Sociological Images; visit the site for another alarming graphic along with some commentary. His statistics come from a recently released report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
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Deportation Places Thousands of Children in Foster Care
Not that it was needed, but a report yesterday from the Applied Research Center provides yet more evidence of the devastation caused by our country’s deportation policy. This time the focus is on the children of those deported, over 5,000 who are now housed in the foster care system with no clear pathway to reunite…
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The Vatican And Financial Reform
On Monday the Vatican released a “note on financial reform” from the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace. I’ll leave it to the economists to debate the merits of this proposal (see pro and con). More interesting to me is the Vatican’s commitment to thinking theologically about the global economic crisis. What does their example…
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Fox News and Reverse Discrimination
“Nearly 7-in-10 Americans who say they most trust Fox News say that discrimination against whites has become as big a problem as discrimination against blacks and other minorities.” A recent survey by The Brookings Institution and the Public Religion Research Institute, “What It Means to be an American: Attitudes in an Increasingly Diverse America Ten…
David W. Swanson 