EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press RONNIE GREENE, Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — On a hot Friday last July, a parolee was mowing a lawn in...
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call (FinalCall.com) – In 2014 Black America’s suffering increased at the hands of angry White men...
Rebecca Boone, ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP)—When Congress passed a law in 2003 aimed at ending sexual assault in U.S. prisons, jails and juvenile detention centers, survivors...
Robert Barnes, THE WASHINGTON POST WASHINGTON (The Washington Post)—The Supreme Court said Friday that it will decide whether hundreds of juvenile offenders sentenced to life...
By Harry C. Alford NNPA Columnist How did we let it get so out of hand? The number of people we have incarcerated in this...
Brian Melley, ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES (AP) — In courtrooms across the country every day, a price tag is put on the freedom of the accused...
By Henrie Treadwell NNPA Guest Columnist According to Bureau of Justice Statistics figures analyzed by the Sentencing Project, the number of people incarcerated in state...
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist What if we didn’t incarcerate people who commit non-violent crimes? Or, if we sentenced them, what if their sentences were...
by Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Dwindling state budgets have had an unintended positive effect – prompting states to reduce the number of...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A recent study reports that treating substance abusers, especially African Americans, could save the nation billions of...