incarceration

Increases in police funding will not make Black people safe, it is time city leaders listened

Tennessee Governor will give answer on Cyntoia Brown’s clemency before he leaves office

Homelessness among formerly incarcerated people is at a crisis point, according to the Prison Policy Initiative

New Orleans judge is the latest to strike down money bail after class-action suit

Prisons increasingly employ teachers and secretaries to substitute for guards

Distraught father kills himself in a jail cell after being separated from his family at border

How Jay-Z & other venture capitalists are creating new problems in the name of social justice

#BanTheBox isn’t enough: Study shows prison is a symptom of economic barriers, not just a cause

Philadelphia District Attorney eliminates cash bail for majority of non-violent crimes

GOP Senator flames Attorney General Jeff Sessions as fight for overhauling drug sentences continues

Hurricane Irma evacuation plans excluded many South Florida inmates

California Wants to Repeal Felony HIV Criminalization Laws. No, That Does Not Deserve Backlash.

Report: poor black women evicted as much as black men are incarcerated

Report: black men no better off than they were in 1970s

Study: Eviction rates for black women comparable to black male incarceration

After 8 years, inmates still waiting for trial

Study: parental incarceration worsens disparities between black and white children

Report: Florida charges more kids as adults than any other state, black youth disproportionately affected

The Fight For Black Men

Sesame Street Teaches Kids About Incarceration

Dear Thurgood Marshall Jr, Why Are You On The Board Of Directors For CCA?

Open Society Foundations Announce 2013 Soros Justice Fellows

Uni-ball Releases Racist Ad Mocking Black Men in Prison

Chuck D: Since Reagan And Bush, There’s Been Nothing But Guns And Drugs In The Black Community

REPORT: Black Females Are Fastest Growing Segment of Juvenile Justice Population

Chicago Teens Share Concerns About Gun Violence in ‘Don’t Shoot, I Want To Grow Up’

Mississippi Learning

Mayor Bloomberg Visits Black Church; Defends ‘Stop and Frisk’ Program

REPORT: More Than HALF of Wrongly Accused Prisoners Are Black

Off-duty Policeman Shot 28 Times by 4 Chicago Cops To Be Sentenced Tomorrow; Facing 80 Years

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