Incarceration

Common helped create a music recording studio for inmates at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois.

The Boeing Company has invested $250,000 in Flikshop; a platform designed to combat recidivism.

Social entrepreneur Marcus Bullock is using his business Flikshop to keep families connected with their incarcerated loved ones and combat recidivism.

Jay-Z and Meek Mill’s nonprofit REFORM Alliance will donate masks to every correctional facility in the U.S.

Common’s nonprofit has launched a criminal justice reform campaign to address the spread of COVID-19 in correctional facilities.

The lawyer of YNW Melly requests his release.

The comedian is apart of the larger conversation to incarceration issues.

Meek Mill and Reform Alliance leaders treated children whose lives have been impacted by incarceration to a shopping spree.

Pressure from relatives builds.

NBA player Jarrett Allen provided children in Brooklyn with back-to-school haircuts.

The #FreeBlackMamas initiative is posting bail for Black mothers so they can be reunited with their families in time for Mother’s Day.

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