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December 18, 2013
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Texas prosecutors are trying a second time to imprison a teen who was sentenced last…
December 16, 2013
OPINION - Last week, convicted on multiple counts of manslaughter and assault, 16-year-old Ethan Couch walked out of a Texas…
December 4, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - A former U.S. airman is currently sitting in a Florida prison for what his supporters argue was…
November 19, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — The number of street stops under the police department's heavily criticized stop-and-frisk tactic has plummeted 80…
November 15, 2013
MSNBC - A top House Democrat is going after one of the Supreme Court’s most conservative justices and trying to…
November 14, 2013
MSNBC - There are currently 3,278 people who have been sentenced to life without parole for crimes as small as…
November 11, 2013
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who spent 34 years behind bars for a decades-old killing was freed from jail…
November 11, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) — Attorneys for New York City asked a federal appeals court to vacate a judge's orders that…
October 30, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - And while a majority, 60 percent, still favor capital punishment, over the last twenty years there has…
October 22, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Every day, on average, in America’s adult prisons, 10,000 children are locked behind bars, mostly for nonviolent…
October 18, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Racial disparities continue to drive the mass incarceration of people of color according to a new report…
October 9, 2013
NBC NEWS - Just two percent of counties in the United States are responsible for more than half of the…
October 9, 2013
NBC NEWS - The American Civil Liberties Union has weighed in on uniform-mounted police cameras in a lengthy blog post…
September 20, 2013
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - His silence on the court even spawned a nearly seven-year watch waiting for him to open…
September 19, 2013
theGRIO Q&A - Former federal prosecutor Kenneth Thompson pulled off an upset earlier this month when he defeated a six-term…
August 20, 2013
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) — A U.S. judge approved a request from California and federal officials to force-feed inmates if necessary…
August 14, 2013
OPINION - Holder’s announcement this week signals both his leadership and commitment to these issues as well as his capacity…
August 12, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - Eric Holder will announce in a speech today that the Department of Justice will no longer charge…
August 6, 2013
OPINION - During these last few years we have witnessed an unprecedented assault on the right to vote...
August 5, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - In a recent interview with 'The Morning' radio talk show that aired on WGAN, conservative rocker Ted…