Many will eventually plead guilty without a chance to have their day in court, because the other option is remaining in jail until their trial date, which could be years in the future.
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Floridians will vote this fall on restoring voting rights to 1.5 million felons | Orlando Sentinel
If the amendment becomes law, it could have a huge effect on elections in a state as evenly split politically as Florida.
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Why Are American Prisons So Afraid of This Book? | The New York Times
“Some prison officials are determined to keep the people they lock in cages as ignorant as possible about the racial, social and political forces that have made the United States the most punitive nation on earth…”
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Baltimore Residents Blame Record-High Murder Rate On Lower Police Presence | NPR
For the third year in a row, Baltimore, Md., has had more than 300 murders, reaching a new record of murders per number of residents in 2017.
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Erica Garner, Activist and Daughter of Eric Garner, Dies at 27 | The New York Times
Erica Garner, the daughter of Eric Garner who became an outspoken activist against police brutality after her father’s death at the hands of a New York police officer, died on Saturday, according to her mother. She was 27.
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THIS WAY FORWARD: Helping Women Rebuild Lives and Family after Prison | Good Black News
“We’re creating throwaway people,” says Susan Burton. She should know. She used to be one.
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Why Celebrities Are Rallying Behind Cyntoia Brown, a Woman Spending Life in Prison | The New York Times
Cyntoia Brown, who has spent the past 13 years in prison, had no idea that she would suddenly gain the public support of an A-list parade of celebrities on Tuesday.
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Baltimore Rising: HBO Documentary Chronicles A City Trying To Heal After Freddie Gray’s Death | Essence
When Freddie Gray died in police custody in April 2015, Baltimore was thrust into the glare of a harsh spotlight.
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The Rise of Incarceration in Los Angeles: An Interview with Kelly Lytle Hernandez | Black Perspectives, AAIHS
In today’s post, Erica Sterling, a PhD student in the Department of History at Harvard University, interviews Kelly Lytle Hernandez about her new book City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
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Five Arrested in Georgia in ‘Heinous’ 1983 Killing of Black Man | The New York Times
“If the crime happened today, it would be prosecuted as a hate crime…”
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