This video by Walter Lee Hampton says a lot about what might be going on in prison.  It’ll surprise you.

    Dr. Watkins talks about a Man does 20 years prison for selling one gram of crack, studies law, secures his own release .   Click to Watch    

    Dr. Boyce Watkins talks about his brother who went to prison     Click to Watch    

    Dr. Boyce Watkins talks about his brother who went to prison   Click to Watch    

Silver Spring, Maryland – April 27, 2013 – The faith-based community of Montgomery County, Maryland will be hosting a public panel discussion at THE PEOPLE’S COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH AT 11AM that will address the re-enslavement of African Americans in the US through a twenty-first century caste system called “The New Jim Crow.” This system previously institutionalized through slavery and post ...

    Dr. Boyce Watkins talks about prison rape and mass incarceration with Dr. Byron Price     Click to Watch  

      For 42 years, we have waged war against our own people that we have disguised as the “War on Drugs.” Forty-two years of failure that has cost the American taxpayers $1 trillion dollars, resulted in 45 million drug arrests, and overfilled America’s prisons while failing to reduce the availability, sale, or use of drugs in the United States. Instead, ...

  Inmate Terry Young says that his life is in danger after he wrote a letter exposing corruption within the prison system.     Click to Watch    

    The Center for Church and Prison, Inc. Response to  The Black Mental Health Alliance’s “Saggy Pants Campaign Rev. George Walters-Sleyon The issue of Saggy pants is not a criminal issue. It should not be criminalized. Wearing Saggy pants reflects a grave social dilemma in the American sociopolitical and economic consciousness.  While the intention to advocate for appropriate dressing ...

    This month, the nation’s largest for-profit prison operator, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), has been celebrating Black History Month with blogposts remembering Rosa Parks and Facebook trivia contests about the contributions of African American musicians. CCA is also celebrating its 30thyear as company with a series of anniversary parties around the country. However, we believe that there is nothing to celebrate about ...