A Louisiana Black Man Is Serving Life Sentence for Stealing Hedge Clippers, White State Supreme Court Justices Refuse to Review His Case

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A Louisiana Black Man Is Serving Life Sentence for Stealing Hedge Clippers, White State Supreme Court Justices Refuse to Review His Case

The white justices on the Louisiana Supreme Court declined to review the case of a Black man serving a life sentence for stealing a pair of hedge

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PHOENIX, ARIZONA – June 4, 2020 – Over the last two years, American Friends Service CommitteeArizona (AFSC-AZ) has worked with state Rep. Walt Blackman on sentencing reform legislation, focusing on the areas of earned release credits for people in prison to reduce Arizona’s prison population and

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Zimbabwe's MDC 'abductees' charged with fabricating torture, face jail

Three young opposition activists in Zimbabwe who said they had been abducted and sexually assaulted faced charges on Friday of lying about their treatment as the government claims their allegations are part of a plot to destabilise the

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Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib Announce The BREATHE Act, Calling For Defunding Police, Reparations, and Universal Basic Income - Black Enterprise

Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib announced the BREATHE Act, a proposal for sweeping legislative changes to the criminal justice system.

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Let prisoners go during COVID-19 pandemic

As Piper Kerman, author of “Orange is the New Black,” wrote in the Washington Post, this is largely the result of prison sentences that are longer than those imposed by any other

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Popcorn with Zenger: No One to Root For in ‘All Day and a Night’ – Free Press of Jacksonville

“All Day and a Night,” the latest film from Netflix, tells the story of a young black man dealing with the reality of his

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'Major win' for mentally ill prisoners

SANTA CRUZ, St Elizabeth - More than 20 years ago, Abraham Lawrence was imprisoned after throwing stones at a group of men. The stones had damaged a police service vehicle in the process. His only 'crime', other than malicious destruction of property, was that he was deemed mentally ill and

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Critics Pile On Vogue Over Simone Biles Photos, Call For More Black Photographers

With "all the Black talent ... Vogue couldn't hire a Black photographer to shoot this cover?" asked one in response to the dimly lit pics.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal

Wesley Cook established his status as a political activist while still a teenager. At age 14, he took part in a protest against a rally for presidential candidate George Wallace and was subsequently arrested by Philadelphia police. The arrest did not deter him from further political activism, and

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Amy Klobuchar, Who ‘Didn’t Prosecute Controversial Police Killings,’ Demands Justice For George Floyd

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African-American activists escalating efforts to persuade Biden not to pick Klobuchar for VP

African-American activists are escalating their efforts to persuade former Vice President Joe Biden not to name Sen. Amy Klobuchar as his running mate, arguing he needs to choose someone who would excite black

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COMMENTARY: Old, Sick and Incarcerated

Yet the federal correctional institution that housed Manafort had no coronavirus cases, and Manafort had served fewer than two years of his more than seven-year

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Bill Cosbys Sex Crime Conviction Will Be Reviewed As Pennsylvanias Top Court Accepts His Appeal

Bill Cosby's appeal of his 2018 conviction for sexual assault has been accepted by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.

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Hunger strike - Prisoners protest death of fellow inmate after altercation with warders

The authorities are trying to reduce tension at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre where prisoners have gone on a hunger strike in protest of the death of an inmate during an altercation with correctional officers last Saturday. The...

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Black Man Claiming ‘Misconduct’ In 1976 Rape Trial Calls On Gov. Roy Cooper To Commute Sentence

Lau is awaiting a decision to vacate Long’s conviction, to send it back to lower court or to uphold his

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The Freedom Charter Called for Equality in South Africa

The Freedom Charter was a document ratified at the Congress of the People, held at Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa, in June 1955, by the various member bodies of the Congress Alliance. The policies set out in the Charter included a demand for a multi-racial, democratically elected government, equal

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Mentally Ill Jamaican man gets bail after 20 years behind bars - Stabroek News

(Jamaica Gleaner) Forty-nine-year-old Abraham Lawrence, one of several mentally challenged persons, who had been locked away in state custody for two decades, was granted bail in the St Elizabeth Parish Court in Black River

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Two Tulsa Brothers Speak Out After Being Wrongfully Convicted Of Separate Crimes

On Friday, an NBC Dateline special takes a look at the story of Corey Atchison and Malcolm Scott, two Tulsa brothers wrongfully convicted of two separate murders, and who were both serving life sentences for crimes they say they did not

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Jay-Z & Meek Mill To Donate 10 Million Masks To Prisons Across America

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Covid-19: Fears for jailed Akashas

A total of 59 inmates of US federal prisons are reported to have died from Covid-19, the disease caused by the

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Jay-Z And Meek Mill’s Nonprofit To Donate Masks To All U.S. Correctional Facilities

After donating 130,000 surgical masks to prisons and jails throughout the country through their nonprofit REFORM Alliance, they are now expanding the initiative to equip all correctional facilities in the United States with masks, the organization

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Mutare jailbird gets another year for prison break

An inmate at Mutare Farm Prison was yesterday sentenced to 12 months for escaping from lawful custody. BY KENNETH NYANGANI Forgive Zimunya appeared before Mutare magistrate Notebulgah Muchineripi charged with escaping from lawful custody. Prosecutor Chris Munyuku told the court that Zimunya was

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Lesotho: Claims Thabane Is Now On His Death-Bed Refuted

However, Mr Thabane Jr and Ms Sibolla have rubbished the claims in their court papers this week asking the High Court to allow them to oppose 'Maesaiah's bail

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Zambia frees jailed gay couple as part of prison amnesty

A Zambian couple jailed for homosexuality in 2019 were freed this week as part of an amnesty for convicted prisoners to mark Africa Freedom Day, a government gazette

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Wrongfully Convicted Inmate That WNBA Star Maya Moore Put Career On Hold For Has Been Released After Serving 22 Years

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Kazembe cornered over MDC ‘abductees’ case

HUMAN rights lawyers have put Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe on the spot, demanding that he proves State claims that three MDC Alliance officials currently in remand prison raised false allegations of abduction and torture by security forces to tarnish

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Social Entrepreneur Marcus Bullock Uses Tech As A Vessel To Combat Recidivism

Social entrepreneur Marcus Bullock is using his business Flikshop to keep families connected with their incarcerated loved ones and combat recidivism.

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Jamaica: 71-year-old George Williams a step closer to prison release after 48 years without trial

(Jamaica Gleaner) For the first time in 48 years, George Williams had his day in a court of law

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Holness administration declined UK prison offer, Phillips asserts

Leader of the Opposition, Dr Peter Phillip, says he strongly rejects claims from Prime Minister Andrew Holness that the United Kingdom prison offer to Jamaica was implicitly refused by the People’s National Party (PNP) administration....

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