White supremacist gangs in national spotlight
theGRIO REPORT - Who would have known that white supremacist prison gangs are a problem in America?...
Sheriff seeks to replace jail cells with classrooms
NBC Southern California - The gutting of Men's Central Jail cells to be replaced with inmate classrooms is one element of a dramatic re-envisioning of the Los Angeles County jail system as proposed by Sheriff Lee Baca.
California votes to change controversial 'three strikes' law
theGRIO REPORT - California residents voted to pass Proposition 36, the ballot measure aimed at reforming the state's controversial Three Strikes law.
Drug lab scandal might taint over 1,100 cases
More than 1,100 defendants are now serving prison sentences based at least in part on drug tests by a chemist accused of failing to follow protocols and deliberately mishandling samples in a now-closed state drug lab, officials said Monday.
Rev. Jesse Jackson secures release of US prisoners in Gambia
Rev. Jesse Jackson added to his long list of diplomatic accomplishments this week by securing the release of two Americans who had been imprisoned in Gambia for decades...
NC legislators override race bias death row veto
North Carolina Republican lawmakers have voted to override a veto of a law that will place limits on death-row inmates' ability to use evidence of racial bias to challenge the court's ruling of their fate.
Prisoners sue to end 'torture'
The Center for Constitutional Rights has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a group of inmates at Pelican Bay, a federal prison in California. The lawsuit charges …
One of 2 men exonerated goes back to prison
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A judge on Monday ordered one of them back to prison but allowed the other to remain free while fighting cancer...
Ex-con offers financial advice for former felons
theGRIO REPORT - Confident, articulate, and now pursuing a Master's Degree in Theology, Vivian Nixon seems more likely to have spent time in a church worship hall rather than a prison hall.
Ga. prisoner protest puts spotlight on institutionalized slavery
OPINION - The sharp growth in incarceration has left more black people in prison today than there were black people enslaved 1850...
