BLACKPRESSUSA.COM — The result is a system defined by racial inequity. Black and Latino people, for example, make up roughly 30% of the total U.S. population...
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire With the midterm election just days away, the District of Columbia-based think tank, The Sentencing Project, has released a new...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — At Operation New Hope (ONH), we understand that people returning from incarceration face a multitude of barriers, with employment, transportation, and housing being...
By Manny Otiko, California Black Media After Brandon N. Smith was imprisoned for the ninth time, he found himself at a crossroads. That’s when he learned...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Older people don't commit violent crimes (although they commit financial crimes and perjury). Releasing those over 65 who were convicted of drug crimes...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — In the new petition, filed on Thursday, January 9, 2020, Cosby's lawyers also want the high court to consider the impact of the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — He revisited his famous 2004 “Pound Cake” speech and clarified that he probably should not have addressed that controversial dissertation to all African...
SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW — A group of prominent academics, lawyers and activists published an open letter on May 21 calling for the release of political...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Systemic racism drives both poverty and the mass incarceration of low-income people, especially people of color. This cycle of poverty and criminal justice...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Amendment 4 restores the eligibility to vote for individuals with prior non-violent felony convictions in Florida, who have fully completed their entire sentences,...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Unreasonably curtailing parole releases and silencing the political voices of those who have been released from prison is bad policy, guaranteed to reproduce...
