The Journal of the Southern Regional Council, 1978-2003
Restorative Justice By Harmon Wray Vol. 22, No. 3, 2000 pp. 31-32 In recent years many faith-based and secular criminal justice activists and scholars have developed a practical and theoretical perspective which offers both a critique of the prevailing criminal
REVIEWS: Death Sentences Reviewed by Rev. Nibs Stroupe Vol. 22, No. 3, 2000 p. 34 Katya Lezin. Finding Life on Death Row: Profiles of Six Inmates, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1999. I am opposed to the death penalty, but I
Leasing Life Reviewed by Tony Dunbar Vol. 22, No. 3, 2000 pp. 35-36 Alex Lichtenstein, Twice the Work of Free Labor: The Political Economy of Convict Labor in the New South, New York City: Verso Press, 1997. The convict leasing
The Unfinished March Reviewed by John Cole Vodicka Vol. 22, No. 3, 2000 pp. 36-37 William S. McFeely, Proximity to Death, New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 2000. During the past year the debate over capital punishment has intensified and
Writing for His Life Reviewed by Joseph F. Jordan Vol. 22, No. 3, 2000 pp. 38-39 Mumia Abu-Jamal, Noelle Hanrahan, ed. All Things Censored. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000. It is clear that the most articulate voice for prison
Could the Death Penalty Die in Virginia?Opportunities for Activism By Sarah E. Torian Vol. 23, No. 1, 2001 pp. 15-16 Say the words “death penalty” these days and many people will automatically think of Texas. As then-Governor George W. Bush
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Legacy of Violence By Wendy Johnson Vol. 24, No. 1-2, 2002 p. 3 Between 1882 and 1968, 4,743 Americans are known to have been victims of the terrible and violent crime of lynching. A recent article in the Atlanta Journal
Recurring Deaths Reviewed by Brenda Anderson Vol. 24, No. 1-2, 2002 pp. 20-21 Randolph Loney, A Dream of the Tattered Man: Stories from Georgia’s Death Row, Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdsmans Publishing Company, 2001. With a Foreword by Will D.
Fighting to Find the Facts: Virginia Organizing Project on Racial Profiling By Steve Vaughan Vol. 25, No. 1-4, 2003 p. 10 To solve a problem, one first needs to know how bad the problem is. While that might seem to
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