Psychologists for Social Responsibility -- April 3, 2016

​Too often, our participation in these settings supports existing structures of racial injustice, already so widespread they can appear commonplace and 'normal.'

"Given the long history and current confluence of forced segregation, mass incarceration, private for-profit prisons, solitary confinement, the school-to-prison pipeline, and other correlates of inhuman and degrading treatment, professionals need to look seriously at our ethical obligation to beneficence and non-maleficence.

"We need to recognize when we are rightly and actively resisting abuse and when we are instead complicit in maintaining abusive systems.

"It is our responsibility to align our ethical obligations to embrace and advocate for policies and practices that actively work to dismantle racial injustices in all settings in which we work."