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What about those who survive?

Addressing the victimization of young men of color

We wrote and prepared to release our new issue brief, Young Men of Color and the Other Side of Harm: Addressing Disparities in our Response to Violence, long before the grand juries in Ferguson and Staten Island reached their decisions. This brief is not specifically about the violence committed by law enforcement against men of color, nor is it ab ...

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  • Danielle Sered
    Danielle Sered
December 19, 2014
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Confronting Confinement

A Report of the Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons

The Commission on Safety and Abuse in America’s Prisons—a national group of civic leaders, corrections administrators, scholars, advocates, police officers, religious community members, and former prisoners—authored this report following a year-long study of jail and prison conditions in the U.S. The Commission, finding high volumes of violence and ...

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  • Commission on Safety and Abuse in America's Prisons
May 31, 2006
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