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“When They See Us” Shows How Black Slang Was Criminalized For The Central Park 5 & It Still Is Today | Bustle
Nylah Burton, Bustle Atsushi Nishijima/Netflix. Featured Image [dropcap]Ava[/dropcap] DuVernay’s new Netflix docuseries When They See Us depicts the heartbreaking story of the 1990 Central Park Five case in which a group of young Black and Latinx boys were convicted of a crime that they did not commit. Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, […]
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Report: Wrongful convictions have stolen at least 20,000 years from innocent defendants | The Washington Post
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 […]
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Michigan to Pay $860,000 in Lawsuit Over Prison Guards Who Bet on a Woman Inmate’s Suicide | The Root
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 […]
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We found 85,000 cops who’ve been investigated for misconduct. Now you can read their records. | USA Today
USA TODAY is leading a national effort to obtain and publish disciplinary and misconduct records for thousands of police officers.
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SPECIAL REPORT: Mass Incarceration of Women and Minorities a New Crisis |Black Press USA
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 […]
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T.I., New Birth Missionary Baptist Church Join Forces to Bail Out Nonviolent Offenders for Easter | The Grapevine, The Root
Jay Connor, The Grapevine, The Root Carlotta Outley Brown, who took over as principal at James Madison High School during the current school year has implemented a dress code for parents. (Marie D. De Jesus/Houston Chronicle via AP), Featured Image [dropcap]I[/dropcap] spent my Easter Sunday deviating between inhaling jelly beans and watching Kanye pass out […]
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A Racial Pattern So Obvious, Even the Supreme Court Might See It | The Atlantic
Flowers v. Mississippi reveals a rickety American legal system.
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Missouri man wrongfully imprisoned for 17 years sues police | AP
Nathan Skethaw, AP In this Sept. 2016 file photo, David Robinson poses for a portrait in the visiting area inside Jefferson City Correctional Center in Jefferson City, Mo. Robinson, wrongly imprisoned 17 years for murder alleges in a federal lawsuit that police not only knew he was innocent before his conviction, but helped prevent it […]
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Incarcerated Men Document Their ‘Hard Truth’ Via Film | Colorlines
Men incarcerated at Pendleton Correctional Facility in Indiana co-directed “It’s a Hard Truth Ain’t It,” which captures their education in documentary filmmaking.
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