First, the state’s emergency plan should be changed by recognizing the vulnerability of incarcerated people, which would be in line with Governor Gavin Newsom’s March 2023 proposal to make California prisons as humane as possible. In addition, this would let the incarcerated population know that policymakers want life in prison to be as close as […]
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Op-Ed: With Prison Reform, A Second Chance Should Be Our First Choice
NewsOne Featured Video A prison cell block is seen at the El Reno Federal Correctional Institution in El Reno, Oklahoma, on July 16, 2015. | Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty August 2024 will mark two years since my daughter, Michelle was released from prison. Even though we have both been through so much these past […]
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