Tag: ACLU
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OC Groups Push Against Spitzer and to Get Out the Vote
By Dianne Anderson Sexual harassment and discrimination lawsuits shrouding the Orange County District Attorney’s office have the local National Action Network chapter pushing harder this last week to get Black and Brown voters to mail in their Primary ballot. At stake, Darlene Futrel said the numbers with Spitzer at the helm show a pattern of ... -
Juvenile Justice Settlement: $1.4M for Local Nonprofits
By Dianne Anderson Finding Riverside nonprofits that want to get some of the $1.4 million coming each year for the next five years shouldn’t be as hard as it’s been for Corey Jackson as he continues the fight for juvenile justice. Jackson took the lead last year in a major lawsuit to stop the county ... -
Sigma Beta Xi, ACLU Slow School Pipeline to Prison
By Dianne Anderson For what it’s worth, some good is coming out of the long winding school to prison pipeline, which just got a little shorter in Riverside County thanks to an American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, and local education activist Corey Jackson Jackson, founder and CEO for Sigma Beta Xi, Inc., said he got ... -
Criminal Justice Reform Long Overdue
By Dr. Benjamin Chavis As a member of the infamous Wilmington Ten case in North Carolina from 1972 to 2012, I witnessed firsthand why the criminal justice system in the United States needed to be thoroughly reformed. We had been unjustly sentenced in 1972 to a combined total of 282 years in prison for standing ...