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Solitary confinement for 60 days: Student says it was 'diabolical'
Thirteen years have passed since Nafeesah Goldsmith spent 60 days in solitary confinement, but the commands of the daily strip searches echo in her head. “Take off your underwear, turn them ...
We were both held in cages. Our goal now is to free others ... - nj.com
Nafeesah Goldsmith was incarcerated at Edna Mahan Correctional Facility and is now the chair of New Jersey Prison Justice Watch and the senior criminal legal fellow at Salvation and Social Justice.
She was arrested in N.J. when pot was illegal. Now it's not ... - Yahoo
The war on drugs came to Berneice Evans' doorstep in February 1990. She was a single mother pressing shirts in the back room of a dry cleaner when police officers bashed open the door of her ...
I experienced the torture of solitary confinement. Let’s end it so ...
Nafeesah Goldsmith was 26 years old when she was placed in solitary confinement for 60 days at New Jersey State Prison. After serving nearly 13 years for first-degree robbery and kidnapping, ...
Decades after her mom’s pot conviction, a daughter fights for ...
Nafeesah Goldsmith sees a connection between her mother's pot conviction and the family troubles that followed. Courtesy Nafeesah Goldsmith. Goldsmith said that seeing her mother's struggle, ...
Legalized Marijuana In New Jersey To Bring Unprecedented Reinvestment ...
Nafeesah Goldsmith recounted police raiding her home in Neptune, New Jersey when she was a child. Cops said they found more than an ounce of pot and arrested her mom.
Her family was harmed by the War on Drugs. Now she fights ... - NBC News
During the height of the war on drugs, Nafeesah Goldsmith’s home was raided by police. She was twelve at the time. They found less than two ounces of marijuana, and her mom was convicted on drug ...
Push for voting rights still leaves many former felons off state rolls
Still, some people with felony convictions, like Nafeesah Goldsmith, question the benefit of voting. ... Goldsmith, who got out of prison in 2015 after 13 years, ...
Millions of People With Felonies Can Now Vote. Most Don’t Know It.
Nafeesah Goldsmith, 42, an advocate for formerly incarcerated people, near her home in Lawnside, N.J., on June 15, 2021. Hannah Yoon for The Marshall Project. Goldsmith, who got out of prison in 2015 ...
Story in the Public Square 10/31/2021 - PBS
And Nafeesah Goldsmith is CEO of RISE, which stands for real intervention supports excellence, a mission-based sustainability initiative that supports at-risk communities.
Her family was harmed by the War on Drugs. Now she fights for ... - Yahoo
During the height of the War on Drugs, Nafeesah Goldsmith’s home was raided by police. She was twelve at the time. They found less than two ounces of marijuana, and her mom was convicted on drug ...
Exclusive: Temptation Island’s Tamie Calls Nafeesah a ‘Pathological ...
Tamie opens up about her Temptation Island drama. The post Exclusive: Temptation Island’s Tamie Calls Nafeesah a ‘Pathological Liar’ appeared first on Reality Tea.
Protestors demand answers after one man beaten, another ... - nj.com
“That was a long time,” Nafeesah Goldsmith, the chair of the New Jersey Prison Justice watch, said about the moment of the silence for Boyd, who remains hospitalized after the Sept. 23 assault.
Should N.J. hire an outsider to run state prisons? The job is like ...
A background in social work or psychology would be ideal, said Nafeesah Goldsmith, one of the coalition’s leaders who spent years in Edna Mahan.
New Jersey Is Closing Its Only Women's Prison After Rampant Abuse By ...
Nafeesah A. Goldsmith, chair of New Jersey Prison Justice Watch, said she did not oppose the closure of Edna Mahan, but suggested simply moving inmates to another facility would not put an end to ...
N.J. to enter consent decree with DOJ over plagued women’s ... - WHYY
Nafeesah Goldsmith, who was incarcerated at Edna Mahan and released in 2015, testified that she still lives with the effects of the sexual abuse she experienced at the hands of a corrections officer ...
Federal government will likely monitor N.J. women’s prison in light ...
Nafeesah Goldsmith, who spent years in Edna Mahan and said she was a victim of sexual harassment, said she constantly filed grievances while behind bars, yet she and other prisoners never heard ...