A.R. SHAW, Rolling Out Photo illustration by Lisa Larson-Walker. Photo by Michael Blann/Thinkstock. Featured Image [dropcap]B[/dropcap]lack men in Alabama were racially profiled and made criminals by a group of racist police. According to the Henry County Report, the incidents occurred in Dothan, Alabama where at least 12 White police officers involved. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The officers […]
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Is Life Retroactive? | Slate
He was sentenced to life without parole at 17. Fifty years later, the Supreme Court weighs setting him free.
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Alabama man who served 36 years of a life sentence for stealing $50 to be freed | The Guardian
Alvin Kennard was imprisoned in 1983 with a disproportionately harsh sentence under the ‘three strikes law’
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Thirty years later, Yusuf Hawkins’ murder still shocks in a changed Brooklyn | The City
Clifford Michel, The City, The City A memorial for Yusuf Hawkins in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, Aug. 22, 2019. Photo: Ben Fractenberg/THE CITY. Featured Image [dropcap]Until[/dropcap] this week, Mohamed Kootabeda never heard the name Yusuf Hawkins. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] Kootabeda was shocked to learn the story of the African-American 16-year-old who was set upon by a mob of […]
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Four Black Men Were Freed From Death Row. Republicans Put Them Back. | The New York Times
The North Carolina Supreme Court will hear a case next week that’s a matter of life or death for some inmates.
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Color and Incarceration | Harvard Magazine
Historian Elizabeth Hinton probes the roots of a gathering crisis.
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FBI ranking ‘Black Identity extremists’ as bigger threat than white supremacists ignores the real problem | The Grio
[OPINON] The FBI surveilling Black activists when white supremacist groups are being emboldened is not only harmful, but takes the focus off of a very real threat, particularly these days
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An Ex-Convict Got a Construction Job, but Not Everyone Was Happy | The New York Times
New Yorkers in need of a fresh start are finding work with nonunion construction firms. Are they being helped or exploited?
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Denver’s City Council, Led by Democratic Socialist, Stuns For-Profit Prison Operators by Nuking Contracts | The Intercept
Ryan Grim, The Intercept Candi CdeBaca in Denver on Jan. 10, 2017. Photo: Nick Cote/The New York Times via Redux. Featured Image [dropcap]TWO[/dropcap] FOR-PROFIT prison companies have lost major contracts in Denver over their work in immigrant detention, as backlash to President Donald Trump’s immigration policy continues to mount. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The stunning $10.6 million […]
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Cyntoia Brown Will Be Released From Prison Next Week | Refinery29
Andrea Gonzalez-Ramirez, Refinery29 Leah Chase (left) and Jessica B. Harris at Dooky Chase’s in 2018. PHOTO: CEDRIC ANGELES. Featured Image [dropcap]Cyntoia[/dropcap] Brown is set to walk free next Wednesday, exactly eight months after former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam commuted her sentence. Brown, now 31, had been serving a life sentence for the murder of a […]
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