Judge Greg Mathis and entrepreneur Frederick Hutson joined Roland Martin on “NewsOne Now” to discuss readjustment after prison. Mathis says he dissuades the young men he mentors away from pursuing crime by explaining how much harder they have to work when engaged in illegal activity. Listen to the full conversation on adjustment after incarceration below. […]
As previously reported by NewsOne, Attorney General Eric Holder recently called on a group of states to restore voting rights to ex-felons. “Across this country today, an estimated 5.8 million Americans – 5.8 million of our fellow citizens – are prohibited from voting because of current or previous felony convictions,” he told a symposium on criminal […]
The Huffington Post reports a record number of inmates were freed last year, exonerated for serious crimes it turns out they didn’t commit. The news comes from a a report released last week by the National Registry of Exonerations. Read more from Huffpo: The registry is a collaboration between the University of Michigan Law School and the Center […]
A new registry compiled by two major universities reveals that more than 2,000 prisoners were incorrectly imprisoned for serious crimes since 1989. After perusing the registry, it has been uncovered that more than half of the newly exonerated prisoners were African American, according to Newser. SEE ALSO: Remembering Haiti’s Past The University of Michigan Law […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The nonpartisan League of Women Voters and two prisoners’ rights groups sued California elections officials on Wednesday, claiming that tens of thousands of criminals being shifted to county jails and community supervision should be eligible to vote. The state’s new realignment law that took effect in October is sending lower-level offenders to […]
A new study by M. Marit Rehavi of the University of British Columbia and Sonja B. Starr of the University of Michigan Law School shows that Black Americans receive almost 60% long prison sentences than white Americans who committed the same crime. The study covered 58,000 federal criminal cases and found that there was a […]
NEW YORK — In corrections systems nationwide, officials are grappling with decisions about geriatric units, hospices and medical parole as elderly inmates – with their high rates of illness and infirmity – make up an ever increasing share of the prison population. SEE ALSO: Bank Robber Shoots Himself In The Foot (VIDEO) At a time […]
New York will pay $3.5 million to a mother whose son died when two prison aides violently restrained him at the former Tryon Boys Residential Center in Fulton County, NY in 2006. SEE ALSO: Teen Commits Suicide By Piranha According to the lawsuit, Darryl Thompson stopped breathing and died shortly after prison workers failed to respond to his […]
MONTGOMERY, Ala.-24-year-old, Rocrast Mack, died after being brutally beaten by six prison guards after he had an incident with a female prison guard. Mack was sentenced to 20 years in jail for selling $10 worth of crack cocaine to an undercover officer when he was 18 years old. The Huffington Post reports: Severely overcrowded, underfunded […]
With 2.3 million people behind bars, America leads the world in incarceration. The U.S. prison population has more than doubled in the past 15 years. Despite the fact that African Americans and Latino Americans are less than 30% of the country, they comprise more than 60% of its inmates. See Also: Ever Been To Europe? […]
CHICAGO-Cook County prosecutors on Thursday vacated the convictions of three of five men serving prison time for the 1991 rape and murder of a 14-year-old suburban Chicago girl after DNA evidence linked another man to the crime. The men were convicted as teenagers in the rape and murder of Cateresa Matthews of Dixmoor, which is […]
NEW ORLEANS — A man convicted of raping a woman in 1981 but cleared last month by DNA tests was freed from a Louisiana prison Friday after nearly 30 years behind bars. Henry James was released from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola a day after state District Judge Henry G. Sullivan vacated his conviction. Jefferson […]
