Colin Campbell, BUSINESS INSIDER (Business Insider) — Presidential candidate and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) blasted former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Monday over her...
JUAN A. LOZANO, Associated Press RICHMOND, Texas (AP) — Four-year-old William Cole saw his father’s face and reached out to touch it during a jail visit....
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Freddie Gray is neither the first, nor will he be the last person to die in police custody. According to...
(CNN) – President Bill Clinton on Wednesday conceded that over-incarceration in the United States stems in part from policies passed under his administration. Clinton signed...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Mass incarceration in the United States is counterproductive and disproportionately causes a long-term injury to Black Americans and...
Juliet Linderman, ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE (AP) — Teenagers awaiting trial on adult charges in Baltimore are being kept in solitary confinement for far too long —...
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist I know from firsthand experience that the “criminal justice system” today in the United States is in serious...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the last two decades mass incarceration, a system that has a disproportionate negative impact...
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...
