criminal justice

Racism reared its ugly head.

John Legend, New Profit, and Bank of America have joined forces to launch an entrepreneurial accelerator program for former inmates.

Jay Z will support criminal justice reform organizations in their efforts to bail out incarcerated fathers for Father’s Day.

John Legend joined Roland Martin on NewsOne Now last week to discuss his criminal justice reform campaign, #FreeAmerica.

Glenn Martin, a former Rikers inmate and advocate for criminal justice reform, has continually made the effort to have Rikers Island closed.

The documentary dives into the fundamentally broken parts of the criminal justice system and personifies it with Browder's story.

Two longtime activists argue that the executive clemency process itself has historically shown patterns of racial bias; and that the same holds true even during the Obama presidency.

Obama plans on implementing regulations that would lower the amount of child support that prisoners pay when they’re behind bars, hopefully reducing a major driver of mass incarceration.

UPDATED: Friday, March 18, 2016 2:00 PM EST Ferguson and the Justice Department jointly and officially filed an agreement Thursday that resolves the United States’ pending lawsuit against the Missouri city thrust into the spotlight after the shooting of Michael Brown Jr. in 2014. “The American people must be able to trust that their courts and […]

Lakeisha Holloway "has been hit with a total of 71 charges, prosecutors said Wednesday, adding up to more than a millennium worth of jail time," the report says.

Adam Satterly earned 60 days behind bars for the outburst.

NewsOne’s Top 5 gives you a quick rundown of the viral stories we’re talking about today. Spring Valley Student Allegedly Hit Ben Fields In Altercation, Sheriff Says NAACP Addresses Spring Valley High Video, Student Who Recorded Video Details Incident Sheriff Suggests Spring Valley Officer Isn’t Racist Because He Has A Black Girlfriend Justice Department To […]