News broke about yet another prison inmate in Alabama whose remains were returned to his family missing major organs, revealing a bizarre pattern of mistreatment happening within the state’s prison system. Kelvin Moore died at the Limestone Correctional Facility on July 21, 2023, from a […]
Update (August 8, 2022): William “Roddie” Bryan, the third man involved in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, was sentenced to 35 years in prison for a hate crime involving the fatal chase, according to AP News. Bryan’s sentencing is less than the life sentences Gregory and […]
Former Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke was released from prison on Thursday after serving less than half of his nearly seven-year prison sentence for the murder of Black teen Laquan McDonald. A jury convicted Van Dyke in 2018 of second-degree murder and 16 counts […]
Photo: Matt Rourke (AP) Willie Stokes, a Black man from Philadelphia who has spent the last 37 years in prison for murder, is now free, according to NPR. The primary witness in the investigation, Franklin Lee, was allegedly offered sex and drugs by detectives […]
In 1963, Henry Montgomery was skipping school when a plainclothes officer walked up on him. As a Black teen living in the South, he was startled by the white man so he shot him. Montgomery was just 17 and didn’t know the man he’d […]
A newly reduced prison sentence for a former Minneapolis police officer who was originally convicted of third-degree murder for killing a white woman has prompted speculation about the legal implications it has for Derek Chauvin, who was found guilty of the same charge for killing George Floyd, a […]
To date, 18 states in America, including the District of Columbia, have legalized the recreational use of cannabis. Another 13 and the U.S. Virgin Islands have decriminalized its usage, subsequently boosting the industry’s revenues. Now an organization in Illinois wants officials to reconsider reparations for ex-convicts who […]
By Viviane Faver A black man was trialed and convicted – without concrete evidence – in a small town in North Carolina in the early 1970s by an all-white jury for the rape of a prominent local white executive’s white wife. This is the story […]
In the grainy cell phone video, the prison block is dim and the shouting muffled—but the sight of wafting, gray smoke is unmistakable. “It’s a nonviolent protest going on right now because the officers, in the middle of the coronavirus, have refused us […]
September 25, 2019 EditEdit with WPBakery Page Builder SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California prison officials have halted an effort aimed at forcing warring prison gangs to get along with each other after the inmates wound up brawling and even rioting when placed together in prison recreation yards, officials told The […]
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