(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...
New AG Meets with Baltimore Leaders, Police and Activists By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent [Compiled from Pool Reports] WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Keeping her...
New AG Meets with Baltimore Leaders, Police and Activists By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent [Compiled from Pool Reports] WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Keeping her...
(CBS News) – Nearly half of American young adults lack confidence in the nation’s justice system or don’t trust their local police to do the...
(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...
(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...
(The Daily Beast) – For 21 years, death row inmate Willie Jerome Manning has waited for a DNA test to prove his innocence. In 1994,...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Working across the aisle with Republicans on criminal justice reform might be the best shot that...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Prisoners’ advocate groups hope President Barack Obama’s decision to grant clemency to nearly two dozen,...
By Freddie Allen NNPA Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Prisoners’ advocate groups hope President Barack Obama’s decision to grant clemency to nearly two dozen,...
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – As the economy recovers and violent crime hits 30-year lows, lawmakers continue to trade in their...
(AL.com) – As legislators consider prison reform in Alabama, a national expert on African-American health said the criminal justice system is a major source of...
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call (FinalCall.com) – In 2014 Black America’s suffering increased at the hands of angry White men...
by Charlene Muhammad Special to the NNPA from The Final Call (FinalCall.com) – In 2014 Black America’s suffering increased at the hands of angry White men...
Well-known Oakland civil rights attorney John Burris, who has gained a national reputation for representing, victims of police abuse, spoke recently to local students and educators...