We need better access to reentry programs that offer support for people who have lived every day of their adulthood behind bars.
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Review: In ‘Crown Heights,’ Justice Delayed and Denied | The New York Times
… “Crown Heights” nonetheless makes a powerful argument that Colin’s imprisonment was hardly an anomaly.
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‘I worked as a prosecutor. Then I was arrested. The experience made a man out of me. It made a black man out of me’ | The Guardian
Paul Butler, author of the acclaimed book Chokehold, worked as a criminal prosecutor. Then he himself was arrested
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March for Justice | New York Amsterdam News
Aug. 26, the Alliance of Families for Justice will lead a 19-day march to bring to the attention of the New York State Legislature, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the general public the human rights abuses in New York prisons and jails such as Rikers and Attica, according to the AFJ website.
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Fired/Rehired | The Washington Post
Police chiefs are often forced to put officers fired for misconduct back on the streets
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Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story | PBS
In 2004, Cyntoia Brown was arrested for murder. There was no question that a 43-year-old man is dead and that she killed him.
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Lee Boyd Malvo, Serving Life in ‘Beltway Sniper’ Case, Must Be Resentenced, Judge Says – The New York Times
WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Virginia on Friday ruled that a man who terrorized this region 15 years ago as the so-called Beltway Sniper must be resentenced because the life sentences imposed when he was a teenager are unconstitutional.
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When Black America Was Pro-Police – The Atlantic
As crime rose from the late ’60s to the ’90s, so did inner-city support for law-and-order policies.
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This Mother’s Day, Black Lives Matter Activists Will Give More Than 30 Women Their Freedom – The Nation
These women are in jail not because they’ve been convicted of a crime but because they can’t pay to get back to their lives as they await trial.
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Law passes in NY mandating that police interrogations be recorded on video – New York Amsterdam News
All police questioning in major crimes must be recorded on video during the entire time that a suspect is in custody, under a law approved Monday by legislators in New York, according to an official with the Innocence Project.
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