Kalief Browder, when he was 16, was charged with theft of a backpack. He was incarcerated at Rikers Island for three years waiting for trial. He...
Photo-New York State Governor’s Office Two dangerous inmates, both convicted of murder, escaped the Clinton Correctional Facility in New York, a maximum security prison, sometime...
American Jails affect more Americans than our federal and state prisons. According to the Vera Institute of Justice’s report, “Incarceration’s Front Door:The Misuse of Jails in...
U.S. marshals arrested this week, Frank Freshwaters, who escaped from prison in 1959. He was convicted in 1957 of manslaughter, when he killed a pedestrian while...
Many elderly inmates are now in their 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. The release of these inmates, many who were imprisoned for non-violent crimes and/or drug possession...
By now, all of America has heard of Freddie Gray’s tragic death. Freddie Gray, a 25-year old Baltimore black man suffered a severe spine injury during...
It is not rocket science. You do not need a new committee to research ways how to reduce recidivism. The United States has 25% of...
Before an individual becomes a judge, it should be required that any future judge be locked up in a prison for one week. I am not suggesting that...
America has watched over and over the shocking cell phone video of the murder of Walter Scott in South Carolina by a North Charleston’s police officer....
Many prisons and jails in the United States do not provide even basic healthcare to their inmates. A report by Newsweek about the dangers of prison...