In a scathing report from the Kentucky Department of Corrections, it was found that over the course of a year, a dozen employees were involved in illegal and inappropriate relationships with inmates and others who they were supposed to be supervising. Kenya Moore: Abandoned At Birth To Real Housewives of Atlanta | My Family Story […]
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Prison Education Gives Inmates A Better Chance Of Staying Out Of Jail, Study Shows
NewsOne Featured Video Source: Houston Chronicle/Hearst Newspapers via Getty Images / Getty Better job prospects. Higher wages. A greater chance of staying out of jail. Those are the key outcomes that we discovered for incarcerated people who get an education while serving their time. Our findings were published in the American Journal of Criminal Justice. […]
Read MoreFewer Black Americans Are Incarcerated Than 20 Years Ago, But The Problem Isn’t Behind Us
Over the last two decades, efforts to stem the tide of mass incarceration appear to have made inroads. A new report from the Sentencing Project found that the imprisonment rate for Black men was nearly cut in half since 2000. Kevin Johnson Executed By State of Missouri After Supreme Court Denies Appeal Off English However, […]
Read More‘TRUMP CAN’T HIDE’: Auntie Maxine Waters Predicts Ivanka Will Be ‘Imprisoned’ With Dad, Too
NewsOne Featured Video Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) at the U.S. Capitol on July 12, 2023, in Washington, D.C. | Source: Drew Angerer / Getty In what people rooting against Donald Trump likely took as a setback, a judge decided Thursday to delay the start of the former president’s criminal trial in Georgia for allegedly interfering […]
Read MoreHow Car Culture Funnels Drivers Into Debt, Jail, and Danger
All the while, the automobile industry and allied pressure groups waged a fierce campaign to give drivers unrivaled precedence on the roads. Roads, which once conveyed horses, carts, and people on foot, were to become the exclusive territory of motor vehicles. Automakers even coined the term “jaywalker”—to describe a low-class country rube unaware of the […]
Read MoreNew Developments involving Children Housed in Infamous Prison in Louisiana
Vehicles enter the main security gate at the Louisiana State Penitentiary — Angola Prison, the largest high-security prison in the country in Angola, La., Aug. 5, 2008. In a federal court filing dated Monday, July 17, 2023, advocates said that juveniles held in a former death row building at the Louisiana prison for adults are […]
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