By Eli Walsh Bay City News California will draw down several COVID-19-related guidelines next month as the state shifts out of its emergency response to the...
Hundreds of thousands of individuals locked up in jails almost daily — many find it challenging to pay bail By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “The U.S. has long failed to live up to its international human rights treaty obligations on eliminating racial discrimination, perhaps more so in...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — According to the American Library Association, its Office for Intellectual Freedom reported that 273 books were affected by censorship attempts in 2020, many with content...
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 — 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 — According to state data that is updated daily, for Marion Correctional, as of May 1, staff members who reported positive results are 175;...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — During a visit to the infirmary at SCI-Phoenix for high blood pressure issues, Mr. Cosby was informed that the carotid arteries on the...
NNPA NEWSWIRE — AUSTIN, TX — Governor Abbott unlawfully exceeded his constitutional authority by issuing an executive order that suspends the rights that individuals, who are...
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NNPA NEWSWIRE — America represents four percent of the world’s population, yet we detain nearly 25 percent of the world’s incarcerated people. At least 95 percent...
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...
LOS ANGELES SENTINEL — Black people with mental illnesses are already overrepresented in our jails and prisons.
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...
2-1 Vote Makes it More Affordable for Inmates to Phone Family, Friends by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer FCC Chair...
By Marc Morial NNPA Columnist GEO Group “is a terrible company with a well-publicized track record of abuse and neglect and FAU should be ashamed to...
