By Jerry Ford II Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Hundreds packed the Washington Convention Center as an early crowd witnessed the “Black...
TIM TALLEY, Associated Press EL RENO, Okla. (AP) — Federal inmates at an Oklahoma prison said Wednesday they are hoping a documentary featuring President Barack Obama’s...
(NBC News) – A growing movement against the jailing of poor offenders who cannot pay fines has hit New Hampshire, where the local American Civil Liberties...
“Mandatory Minimums: New Opportunities for Criminal Justice Reform” by Linda Poulson Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper Mandatory minimum sentencing is an out-of-touch, unfair...
(New York Times) – A survey of families that have a family member in jail or prison has found that nearly two-thirds struggle to meet their...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS News) — Four current and two former correctional officers within the Philadelphia prison system have been charged with supplying drugs and cell phones to inmates in exchange...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Brandyn Heppard usually arrives 30 minutes early for his visits to Northern State Prison in Newark, N.J....
(Think Progress) – More than two years after a class action lawsuit exposed the quota policy behind the NYPD’s rampant use of stop-and-frisk, new lawsuits filed...
TAMI ABDOLLAH, Associated Press AMANDA LEE MYERS, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Just 6 percent of Californians are African American, yet they are involved in...
JONATHAN DREW, Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Receiving $750,000 apiece for wrongful imprisonment is a bittersweet reward for two North Carolina brothers who suffered an...
DON THOMPSON, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California agreed Tuesday to end its unlimited isolation of imprisoned gang leaders, restricting a practice that once kept...
(Salon) – The brutal and iniquitous treatment African-Americans suffer at the hands of their criminal justice system has been a chief topic of conversation in the...
SAM HANANEL, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Prison reform advocates who have spent years campaigning against solitary confinement are counting on a powerful new ally in...
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JULIA HOROWITZ, Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California restored voting rights Tuesday to tens of thousands of criminals serving sentences under community supervision, reversing a...
(The Washington Post) – A lot of people die behind bars each year in the United States. And the number is going up, according to the...
By Jeffrey L. Boney Special to the NNPA from the Houston Forward Times Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, and...
BRIAN WITTE, Associated Press ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — An announcement by Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan that he is closing the Baltimore City Detention Center marked a...
WASHINGTON (USA Today) — One is a high school counselor. Two or three work in restaurants. Some can’t find a job. Others have slipped into obscurity....
JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Some federal and state prisoners could soon be eligible for federal student aid to take college courses while...
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist “That’s what strikes me. There for the grace of God.” That was President Obama’s reaction when he became the...
EL RENO, Okla. (New York Times) — They opened the door to Cell 123, and President Obama stared inside. In the space of 9 feet by 10 feet,...
By Bobbi Booker Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA – Immediately following President Barack Obama’s speech in Philadelphia this week, NAACP President Cornell W....
(Washington Post) – Sharanda Jones — prisoner 33177-077 — struggled to describe the moment in 1999 when a federal judge sentenced her to life in prison...
(New York Times) – Two men were sitting in a parked car, waiting to pick someone up. Carlos Cervantes was in the driver’s seat. He was...
