NNPA NEWSWIRE — They’ve brought in a number of outside advisors, including attorney and entrepreneur Yusef Jackson, who earlier this year joined the executive team of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Celebrities have access to expensive legal teams, but those legal teams are generally through their television network, movie studio or record label and...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — For some time, concerns about Parchman have rankled inmates, family members, and others, including hip-hop superstar Jay-Z who is suing the state demanding...
ROLLINGOUT.COM — The reality TV mogul and key component of the 10-year-old blockbuster series “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” has been secretly financing operations that have led...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Probation is often billed as an alternative to incarceration, but instead it is frequently set with unrealistic conditions that undermine its goal of...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — "Mass incarceration is the greatest moral and racial injustice of our time," Lauren-Brooke Eisen, the senior counsel and Inimai Chettiar, the director of...
MILWAUKEE COURIER — "...the [Wisconsin] Department of Workforce Development (DWD) is working with the Department of Corrections (DOC) to cultivate partnerships with state correctional facilities, delivering...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday made it easier for inmates who are accused of crimes — but not yet convicted — to...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – More than 40 states allow prison and jails to charge inmates “pay to stay” fees,...
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....
