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...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) –Since 1973, more than 300 innocent defendants have been sentenced to death, largely because Blacks are overrepresented...
ERIC TUCKER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is encouraging many nonviolent federal prisoners to apply for early release — and expecting thousands to...
by La Risa R. Lynch Special to the NNPA from The Final Call “When you make prisons into a profit, you drive the need for incarceration...