Archive Author
Contributing writer, Anti-Racism Daily. Michael J. Moore is a Latino writer and the author of the novels Secret Harbor, After the Change, and Highway Twenty. His journalism has appeared in HuffPost, YES! Magazine, and The Nation.
Issues written by Michael J Moore for Anti-Racism Daily, newest first.
7 issues · 2021–2023
Learn about the Graduated Reentry Program and how prison reform legislation isn’t meaningful without accountability and oversight.
Due to policies and the staff culture in prisons, racial segregation and oppression are used to subjugate minority groups.
The prison grievance system in the U.S. fails incarcerated individuals by failing to address complaints and incidences of misconduct and abuse of power that is rampant in the corrections system.
Sentencing enhancements are often used to coerce defendants out of their constitutional right to a trial. Advocates are working to eliminate the exploitative practice.
Incarcerated workers risk exposure to COVID in prisons, fearing added time if they refuse to work in hazardous conditions.
The prison system tolerates and creates sexual violence against incarcerated people. The pervasive nature of this violence led to legislation like the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
The private-prison industry creates profits – at the cost of those incarcerated.