Incarceration

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August 21, 2018
Prisoners across the nation are set to participate in a work stoppage to demand an end to what they say…
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March 19, 2018
Jay-Z's label, Roc Nation, has now partnered with First Round Capital to invest $3 million into a “de-carceration” startup called Promise;…
July 17, 2015
OPINION - In the area of criminal justice, this was quite a week for President Obama. Articulating a vision for…
June 8, 2015
Kalief Browder, 21, hung himself with an air conditioning cord on Saturday after he lost his battle with depression that
March 1, 2015
Opinion - For forty years the United States has hidden the consequence of its dark racial history at the center…
February 23, 2015
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Edmund Pettus Bridge stood center stage in both the performance and acceptance speeches by John
December 8, 2014
theGRIO REPORT - Former Real Housewives of Atlanta star Apollo Nida may be facing divorce and eight years in prison,…
December 5, 2014
The Williamsburg Yorktown Daily is reporting that a 22-year-old Hampton man is facing 20 years in prison and a $2,500 fine
November 29, 2014
GENEVA (AP) — Police brutality, military interrogations and prisons were among the top concerns of a U.N. panel’s report Friday
October 3, 2014
WASHINGTON (AP) — When inmates at a notorious Alabama women’s prison came forward to complain of sexual abuse and harassment,
October 18, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Racial disparities continue to drive the mass incarceration of people of color according to a new report…
October 12, 2013
NBC New York - A woman who admitted to drowning her three young children in her Long Island bathtub five…
July 20, 2013
OPINION - The first thing I wanted to do when I heard that George Zimmerman was going to walk free…
June 24, 2013
MSNBC - While Obama's 2008 campaign and his subsequent re-election were moves in the right direction, they did not remove…
June 17, 2013
NBC News - Those friendly, fuzzy Muppets from 'Sesame Street' have helped kids open up about all sorts of serious…
June 4, 2013
OPINION - This disparity within the 'war on drugs' and the severity of its punishments are destroying the potential of…
October 5, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - Award-winning director Eugene Jarecki calls the 40-year-long War on Drugs a 'terrible American secret' and it's one…
January 27, 2012
NEW YORK (AP) - The latest available figures from 2010 show that 8 percent of the prison population -- 124,400…
July 18, 2011
OPINION - What does it say about our society when the health care that people supposedly receive behind bars is…
July 11, 2011
theGRIO REPORT - 'Some of the most progressive, forward thinking liberal people I know' have questioned her decision to marry…