Incarceration

The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates is back with a probing analysis titled "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration."

For the three years Kalief Browder sat in New York’s Rikers Island, he probably wondered what the difference would have been if his family could have posted the $3,000 bail that would have gotten him out of the jail and back on the street to await trial. Instead he languished there, just a couple football […]

The rekindled relationship between the United States and Cuba has taken yet another step forward. On Tuesday, the White House announced that President Obama plans on moving Cuba off the government’s list of nations that support terrorism. The decision came after a meeting between President Obama and Raúl Castro, President of Cuba, that took place […]

The United States seems to enjoy locking people up. Despite the nation only accounting for 5 percent of the world’s population, America accounts for 25 percent of its prison population. A new report published by The Vera Institute of Justice suggests, America is jailing more people even though the national crime rate  is going down. Nicolas Turner, […]

Staten Island District Attorney and New York Republican Dan Donovan (pictured), the man who failed to indict the cop who was responsible for the death of Eric Garner, is slated to run for Congress. Donovan is eyeing the seat which is held by Rep. Michael Grimm (D-NY) who is expected to resign from Congress after […]

Either I’m three days late or two years early on this one. Whichever way you look at it, we’ve got a problem when it comes to a segment of the electorate being unable to vote, their interests thus being ignored. On Tuesday, 83 million people voted in the midterm elections, by and large selecting Republican candidates […]

Half of all Black males in the United States have been behind bars by age 23, according to a new study published by academic journal Crime And Delinquency. SEE ALSO: Woman Spots Kidnapper, Helps Save Little Girl Analyzing data from 1997 through 2008, the study found that 30 percent of Black men have experienced at […]

Attorney General Eric Holder spoke at the Congressional Black Caucus about the positive difference criminal justice reforms can make on incarcerated individuals once they’ve been released from prison. “This is about much more than fairness for those who are released from prison,” Holder stated. “It’s a matter of public safety. It makes plain economic sense.” […]

Attorney General Eric Holder spoke about the injustices of America’s poverty and prison system at the 2013 Congressional Black Caucus. “Throughout the country, too many Americans are trapped,” Holder said, “and too many communities are weakened by a vicious cycle of poverty, criminality and incarceration. Too many people go to too many prisons for far […]

Freedom fighters Carl Dix (pictured above right) and Cornel West (pictured above center) held an intense dialogue about mass incarceration on the Upper West Side Monday evening. The event, “Mass Incarceration + Silence=Genocide,” served to challenge the sociopolitical forces herding a disproportionate number of Black and Hispanic men in to prisons. The Stop Mass Incarceration Network/ Revolution […]

As we recall the civil rights gains that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. worked so hard for, noted legal scholar Michelle Alexander claims there’s still a long way to go before blacks achieve true social equality. SEE ALSO: Will Obama Outsmart Everyone? In her book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, […]