Joseph Neff, The News & Observer [dropcap]John[/dropcap] Phillips has been behind bars since April 8, 1952, when he was arrested on sexual-assault charges. He was 18 years old and only in the ninth grade, and he was sent to be evaluated at the state mental hospital for black people. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] The report classified Phillips […]
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In Los Angeles, only people of color are sentenced to death | The Guardian
The county’s prosecutor has won death sentences for 22 defendants, none of them white, report shows
View More“When They See Us” Shows How Black Slang Was Criminalized For The Central Park 5 & It Still Is Today | Bustle
Nylah Burton, Bustle Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix. Featured Image [dropcap]Ava[/dropcap] DuVernay’s new Netflix docuseries When They See Us depicts the heartbreaking story of the 1990 Central Park Five case in which a group of young Black and Latinx boys were convicted of a crime that they did not commit. Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, […]
View MoreReport: Wrongful convictions have stolen at least 20,000 years from innocent defendants | The Washington Post
The National Registry of Exonerations (NRE) will soon publish the second part of a study it commissioned of its database of all known false convictions in the United States since 1989. The NRE was kind enough to send me an advance copy. Among the highlights: * The 2,265 exonerees in the NRE database served a […]
View MoreWhen African Americans are killed by police, these lawyers get a phone call | CNN
Darran Simon, CNN, Edited by Braden Goyette, CNN, CNN Photographs by John Nowak, CNN. Featured Image [dropcap]CNN[/dropcap] Civil rights attorney L. Chris Stewart was sitting in church in Atlanta on an April Sunday in 2015 when he received a Facebook message with a news article and a plea from a friend. A police officer had […]
View MoreMichigan to Pay $860,000 in Lawsuit Over Prison Guards Who Bet on a Woman Inmate’s Suicide | The Root
Anne Branigin, The Root Michigan inmate Janika Edmond killed herself in 2015. (Photo: Michigan Department of Corrections). Featured Image [dropcap]How[/dropcap] much is an incarcerated person’s life worth? At one Michigan jail, about the cost of a Subway sandwich. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] That’s what corrections officers wagered in response to a suicidal inmate, 25-year-old Janika Edmond, who […]
View MoreSecond Chance Pell Experiment Expands Education Behind Bars | Colorlines
The program provides need-based grants to people incarcerated in state and federal prisons so that they can take college courses.
View MoreWe found 85,000 cops who’ve been investigated for misconduct. Now you can read their records. | USA Today
USA TODAY is leading a national effort to obtain and publish disciplinary and misconduct records for thousands of police officers.
View MoreSPECIAL REPORT: Mass Incarceration of Women and Minorities a New Crisis |Black Press USA
Although the number of people in prisons and jails in America has slightly declined, numbers released on Thursday, April 25, by the Bureau of Justice Statistics still show that nearly 1.5 million individuals were in prison by the end of 2017. The statistics also note that the U.S. continues to lock up more people than […]
View MoreBell charges cop in shooting at Ladue Schnucks | The St. Louis American
Rebecca Rivas, The St. Louis American Wesley J.C. Bell is assistant professor of criminal justice at STLCC – Florissant Valley. Photo by Wiley Price / St. Louis American, Featured Image [dropcap]The[/dropcap] white Ladue cop who shot a 33-year-old black woman in the Ladue Schnucks parking lot on April 23 has been charged with assault in […]
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