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Richard “Bonaru” Richardson stood in the front yard of an Oakland house, pondering the row of bars that wrapped around the property knowing that for the.
Columnist Razvan Sibii: What we can learn from formerly incarcerated people
Razvan Sibii
Published: 5/17/2021 10:43:28 AM
When you deny a minority group access to housing, to education, to the labor market, and to political opportunity, you’re not only infringing on their human and civil rights you’re robbing everyone, including members of the majority, of the contributions the people you excluded could have made to society if given the chance.
That is the result of racism, of sexism, of xenophobia. And that is the result of prejudice against formerly incarcerated people, too.
As many as 100 million Americans have a criminal record. In 2014, in most states, at least one in 10 incarcerated people had been in prison for a decade or more. That same year, the mean time served in prison in Massachusetts was 6.1 years.
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Inside stories
Rahsaan “New York” Thomas met freelance journalist Emily Nonko at San Quentin State Prison in 2018. Thomas is 50, co-host of the Pulitzer-nominated Ear Hustle podcast, and currently incarcerated at the prison. He had decided to write years earlier, contributed numerous stories to
San Quentin News, and was interested in connecting incarcerated people with those outside. Nonko, a New York-based freelance journalist who typically focuses on cities and urban policy, developed a friendship with Thomas, and started covering San Quentin more often. “As a liberal person who felt prisons were wrong, I hadn’t realized I still had assumptions about who was in prisons, what folks are like, how prisons functioned,” she recalls. “Going in for the first time, a lot of my assumptions immediately fell away.”