As previously reported by NewsOne, Attorney General Eric Holder recently called on a group of states to restore voting rights to ex-felons. “Across this country today,…
The Huffington Post reports a record number of inmates were freed last year, exonerated for serious crimes it turns out they didn’t commit. The news comes from a…
Via Foxbaltimore.com The incident occurred at the Western Correctional Institution near Cumberland, Maryland. The inmate was hospitalized with injuries to his head and face. 19-year-old, Jarod Pridget is in critical condition. Read More. Medical Marijuana Illinois: Veto Session Could Make Legal Weed A Reality Breaking News: Young Gay, Bisexual Black Males Hit Hardest By HIV Infection Texas […]
Via Foxbaltimore.com A Jessup, MD resident is sentenced to 60 days in jail after he accidentally hit and killed his neighbor with his car. Keith Harrell admitted to driving home from a friends house after drinking alcohol and striking his neighbor, Robert Ashworth Brown, when he was walking home. Would you move out of the neighborhood? Read More. Boy, […]
Via Foxbaltimore.com The Governor supports the new youth jail plains, claiming that the current one is old and dangerous. Reverend Jessie Jackson showed up to protest yesterday as hundreds gathered in downtown Baltimore. ” There are other alternatives”, he says. Read More. 25 Worst Cities For Black Youth Cullen Jones Talks 4 Olympic Medals, Inspiring […]
Via: Foxbaltimore.com A bill modifying a law that allows Maryland prisoners to ask the court to suspend their child support payments is scheduled for a final vote in the state Senate. Prisoners can already apply for a waiver because they have no income while in jail, but the bill would allow child support payments to […]
A new study by M. Marit Rehavi of the University of British Columbia and Sonja B. Starr of the University of Michigan Law School shows that Black Americans receive almost 60% long prison sentences than white Americans who committed the same crime. The study covered 58,000 federal criminal cases and found that there was a […]
New York will pay $3.5 million to a mother whose son died when two prison aides violently restrained him at the former Tryon Boys Residential Center in Fulton County, NY in 2006. SEE ALSO: Teen Commits Suicide By Piranha According to the lawsuit, Darryl Thompson stopped breathing and died shortly after prison workers failed to respond to his […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala.-24-year-old, Rocrast Mack, died after being brutally beaten by six prison guards after he had an incident with a female prison guard. Mack was sentenced to 20 years in jail for selling $10 worth of crack cocaine to an undercover officer when he was 18 years old. The Huffington Post reports: Severely overcrowded, underfunded […]
With 2.3 million people behind bars, America leads the world in incarceration. The U.S. prison population has more than doubled in the past 15 years. Despite the fact that African Americans and Latino Americans are less than 30% of the country, they comprise more than 60% of its inmates. See Also: Ever Been To Europe? […]
