Mass Incarceration of Women

In Los Angeles, only people of color are sentenced to death | The Guardian

June 19, 2019June 19, 2019Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform ...

The county’s prosecutor has won death sentences for 22 defendants, none of them white, report shows

Report: Wrongful convictions have stolen at least 20,000 years from innocent defendants | The Washington Post

June 10, 2019May 17, 2020Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform ...

The National Registry of Exonerations (NRE) will soon publish the second part of a study it commissioned of its database of all known false convictions in the United States since 1989. The NRE was kind enough to send me an advance copy. Among the highlights: * The 2,265 exonerees in the NRE database served a […]

Michigan to Pay $860,000 in Lawsuit Over Prison Guards Who Bet on a Woman Inmate’s Suicide | The Root

May 28, 2019May 28, 2019Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform ...

Anne Branigin, The Root Michigan inmate Janika Edmond killed herself in 2015. (Photo: Michigan Department of Corrections). Featured Image [dropcap]How[/dropcap] much is an incarcerated person’s life worth? At one Michigan jail, about the cost of a Subway sandwich. [mc4wp_form id=”6042″] That’s what corrections officers wagered in response to a suicidal inmate, 25-year-old Janika Edmond, who […]

SPECIAL REPORT: Mass Incarceration of Women and Minorities a New Crisis |Black Press USA

May 7, 2019May 12, 2020Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Reform ...

Although the number of people in prisons and jails in America has slightly declined, numbers released on Thursday, April 25, by the Bureau of Justice Statistics still show that nearly 1.5 million individuals were in prison by the end of 2017. The statistics also note that the U.S. continues to lock up more people than […]