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Report: Blacks Disproportionately Affected by Hunger
Amid an improving economy, researchers said, about 1 million Americans could lose food stamp benefits. (Courtesy of themintpress.com) Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer African-Americans...
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Time to End Mass Incarceration
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Mass incarceration in the United States is counterproductive and disproportionately causes a long-term injury to Black Americans and others who remain...
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Hillary Clinton’s Criminal Justice Plan: Reverse Bill’s Policies
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, center, speaks during a small business roundtable, Wednesday, April 15, 2015, in Norwalk, Iowa. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall) (Politico) –...
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Bill Clinton Concedes Role in Mass Incarceration
Former President Bill Clinton speaks during the Civil Rights Summit on Wednesday, April 9, 2014, in Austin, Texas. AP Photo/Jack Plunkett) (CNN) – President Bill Clinton on Wednesday conceded that...
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Push to End Prison Rapes Loses Earlier Momentum
(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File) NEW BOSTON, Tex. (New York Times) — The inmate, dressed in prison whites with a shaved head and incongruously tender eyes behind wire-rimmed glasses, entered the...
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Rand Paul Attacks the Clintons for ‘Putting a Generation of Black Men in Prison’
U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks to reporters after voting at Briarwood Elementary School in Bowling Green, Ky., on Election Day Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/The Daily News, Austin Anthony) Colin...
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MacArthur Grants Aimed at Reducing Numbers in US Jails
JAKE PEARSON, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is giving 20 jails of all sizes $150,000 each to come up with ways to reduce the number of people...
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Mass Incarceration No Factor in Crime Drop
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNPA) – The crime rate has been steadily decreasing for 25 years, but mass incarceration has had very little, if any, impact on the...
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One of the Angola Three Recalls Life in Solitary Confinement
This April 22, 2009, file photo, shows a view of the front entrance of the Louisiana State Penitentiary in Angola, La. Albert Woodfox, the last of three high-profile Louisiana prisoners known as the...
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Community Efforts Urged to Curb Mass Incarceration
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The Black community should take a larger role in curbing mass incarceration and be less reliant on public officials to slow prison...
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More States Comply with Federal Rules to Stop Prison Rape
In this July 31, 2014 file photo, Rikers Island juvenile detention facility inmates walk single file to the jail’s chapel for a visit from Def Jam co-founder Russell Simmons and entertainer L.L. Cool...
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New York to Pay Wrongfully Imprisoned Man $6.25 Million
Jonathan Fleming, who was exonerated of murder after almost 25 years behind bars, on his way to get is first bankcard on Friday April 18, 2014 in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) (USA Today) – New...
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Obama Plans Broader Use of Clemency to Free Nonviolent Drug Offenders
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) Peter Baker, THE NEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON (The New York Times) — Sometime in the next few weeks, aides expect President Obama to issue orders freeing dozens of...
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President Obama to Make Historic Visit to Federal Prison
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Nick Gass, POLITICO WASHINGTON (Politico) — President Barack Obama will become the first sitting chief executive to visit a federal prison when he goes to El Reno, Oklahoma,...
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Incarcerated Women, Girls Suffer Abuse and Neglect in Criminal Justice System
U.S. Rep. Karen Bass leads a panel on females formerly incarcerated to help legislators understand how best to provide intervention services. (Courtesy Photo) By Shantella Y. Sherman Special to the...
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You Just Got Out of Prison. Now What?
(New York Times) – Two men were sitting in a parked car, waiting to pick someone up. Carlos Cervantes was in the driver’s seat. He was 30, with glassy green eyes — quiet by nature, but with a loaded,...
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From a First Arrest to a Life Sentence
(Washington Post) – Sharanda Jones — prisoner 33177-077 — struggled to describe the moment in 1999 when a federal judge sentenced her to life in prison after her conviction on a single cocaine...
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NAACP President Supports Obama’s Call for Prison Reform
By Bobbi Booker Special to the NNPA from the Philadelphia Tribune PHILADELPHIA – Immediately following President Barack Obama’s speech in Philadelphia this week, NAACP President Cornell W. Brooks said...
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Obama, in Oklahoma, Takes Reform Message to the Prison Cell Block
A Secret Service police officer stands outside El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Okla., Thursday, July 16, 2015. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) EL RENO, Okla. (New York Times) — They opened...
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Saying You’re Sorry isn’t Sufficient
By Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. NNPA Columnist “That’s what strikes me. There for the grace of God.” That was President Obama’s reaction when he became the first sitting U.S. president to visit a federal...
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