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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Criminal Justice
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 this week, Mohamed Kootabeda never heard the name Yusuf Hawkins. Kootabeda was shocked to learn the story of the African-American 16-year-old who was set upon by a mob of white youths in Bensonhurst and fatally shot on […]
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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 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. The stunning $10.6 million rebuke to the two firms, CoreCivic and the […]
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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 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 43-year-old man who solicited sex from […]
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To win a murder conviction, police and prosecutors made up evidence and secretly paid a witness, St. Louis DA finds | The Washington Post
Meagan Flynn, The Washington Post Lamar Johnson, in the white pants, is pictured in a 1994 photo lineup. (St. Louis Circuit Attorney). Featured Image state’s theory stretched the physical limits of the human body. Somehow on the night of Oct. 30, 1994, Lamar Johnson left his friend’s apartment, traveled three miles to Marcus Boyd’s front porch with one other man, […]
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