By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper U.S. Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) recently held a panel of juvenile court judges and...
Nick Gass, POLITICO WASHINGTON (Politico) — President Barack Obama will become the first sitting chief executive to visit a federal prison when he goes to...
Peter Baker, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — Sometime in the next few weeks, aides expect President Obama to issue orders freeing...
(USA Today) – New York City will pay $6.25 million to a man wrongfully imprisoned for 24 years for a murder he didn’t commit. The settlement...
REBECCA BOONE, Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — All but four states have either met or are working toward meeting federal guidelines intended to prevent prison...
STACEY PLAISANCE, Associated Press REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Robert King says he watched nearly three decades of his life fade away in...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Black community should take a larger role in curbing mass incarceration and be less reliant on...
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – The crime rate has been steadily decreasing for 25 years, but mass incarceration has had very...
JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is giving 20 jails of all sizes $150,000 each to...
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...
NEW BOSTON, Tex. (New York Times) — The inmate, dressed in prison whites with a shaved head and incongruously tender eyes behind wire-rimmed glasses, entered the...
(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...
(Politico) – Hillary Clinton declared Wednesday in New York that there’s “something wrong” with criminal justice in America. But a lot of what Clinton finds...
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...
Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer African-Americans continue to suffer disproportionately high rates of hunger and poverty despite the growing economy, according to an...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black men are no better off than they were more than 40 years ago, due to mass...
