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A Timeline Of Criminal Justice Reform In America

There are five issues of criminal justice reform that have long needed attention.
by NewsOne Staff
03.31.20
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Is The Presidential Clemency Process Racial?

Two longtime activists argue that the executive clemency process itself has historically shown patterns of racial bias; and that the…
by Angela Bronner Helm
01.18.17
Protests Continue In Baton Rouge After Police Shooting Death Of Alton Sterling
Urban League Embraces New Era Of Civil Rights

For decades, old-guard civil rights groups like the National Urban League, the NAACP, and even Al Sharpton‘s National Action Network,…
by Lynette Holloway
08.06.16
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Judge Frees Wrongfully Convicted Man

Davontae Sanford, 23, who served close to nine years in prison for a quadruple homicide, left prison in Ionia, Michigan,…
by NewsOne Staff
06.08.16
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Racist Testimony Prompts Supreme Court To Re-Examine Black…

Duane Buck was tried and convicted of murder on charges that he shot and killed his ex-girlfriend and another man…
by NewsOne Staff
06.07.16
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Mom Charged For Firing Warning Shot To Defend…

A Black Illinois woman with felony firearm charges after she fired shots to ward off a gunman who killed her…
by Lynette Holloway
06.01.16
Rally For Transparency Held In Florida Police Shooting Case
Florida Cop Who Killed Corey Jones Was Unqualified…

Palm Beach Gardens Police Officer Nouman Raja, who killed Corey Jones as he waited for roadside assistance, was still on…
by Lynette Holloway
04.27.18
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Alabama Judge Accused Of Ordering Poor Offenders To…

In a page ripped from a Hollywood film about a broken criminal justice system, a judge in Marion, Alabama is…
by hollowaylynette
04.29.16
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6,000 Non-Violent Federal Inmates Set To Be Freed…

The Department of Justice is preparing to release about 6,000 nonviolent inmates from federal prison at the end of the…
by hollowaylynette
03.16.18
Ta-Nehisi Coates, National Correspondent for The Atlantic Magazine, wrote the cover piece about reparations in this month's issue...
Ta-Nehisi Coates Stirs Debate With Treatise On “The…

The Atlantic's Ta-Nehisi Coates is back with a probing analysis titled "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration."
by hollowaylynette
09.16.15
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