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| Mar 26, 2025 | Thousands are suing states over sexual abuse in juvenile detention facilities | Tall fencing, edged with barbed wire, surrounds the campus of Maryland’ s Charles H. Hickey Jr. School behind a map of its buildings. (Amanda Hernández/Stateline/TNS)
He repeatedly reported the abuse to his in-facility therapist, but nothin... |
| Dec 16, 2024 | Crime and Public Safety | Colorado DAs push for more beds in state’s youth detention centers after decades of declines | Nearly 8% of children and teens were held 30 days or more after the court ordered they could be released.
“We’re wholeheartedly opposed to (the 324) number,” said Anaya Robinson, a senior policy strategist with the American Civil Liberties ... |
| Nov 8, 2024 | Why private prison stocks are soaring | Quite ironically, once Trump Media (NASDAQ: DJT) is excluded, one would be hard-pressed to find a stock that hasn’t seen a massive rally in the wake of Donald Trump’s reelection as the President of the United States.
A relatively overlooked... |
| Aug 4, 2024 | Pennsylvania's Canned Cocktail Revolution: A Toast to Change | Pennsylvania is about to pop the top on a new era of beverage sales. The state’s governor, Josh Shapiro, recently signed a law that allows supermarkets and restaurants to sell ready-to-drink cocktails. This change is a significant shift in ... |
| Aug 3, 2024 | National Politics | Efforts to release prisoners from long sentences draw new interest | The Oklahoma law has a retroactive clause for current inmates. People who are now serving time can file a resentencing request once the law goes into effect.
Some sentencing experts and criminal justice advocates think second look legislati... |
| May 10, 2024 | The Painful Reality of Being an Incarcerated Mother | Many of us will celebrate Mother’s Day over the weekend by remembering or being present with women who raised us, or with our families. But for the more than 190,000 women incarcerated in the United States this weekend, there will be no cel... |
| Aug 11, 2023 | Florida sets up formerly incarcerated people to vote — then arrests them | In a country where wealth and friends in high places can go a long way in making legal problems disappear, John Boyd Rivers has neither of those advantages.
He and his wife barely scrape by in Alachua County, Florida, raising eight children... |
| Jun 23, 2023 | Pride Has Always Been About Ending Mass Incarceration | We celebrate Pride this year in defiance of the almost 500 anti-LGBTQ bills pending or passed in state legislatures around the country. Unsurprisingly, these attacks are turning to the criminal legal system to enforce homophobia and transph... |
| May 2, 2023 | Perception of Latinos' race impacts crime sentences, study finds | A recent deep dive into how the criminal justice system's assumptions of who is Hispanic and who is not found that Latinos who are perceived to be racially white are much less likely to serve prison time.
The big picture: The study is the l... |
| Mar 11, 2023 | ‘Legal Lynching’: ‘Stand Your Ground’ laws reflect legacy of white supremacist vigilantism in Deep South | Content warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence. Reader discretion is advised.
The spot where Dominic Jerome “D.J.” Broadus II died from four shots fired by his male paramour was about as secluded as could be.
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| Feb 4, 2023 | Out of Balance: Lack of diversity taints Louisiana criminal justice system | When Rosalind Bobb’s son Jamon “Monty” Rogers was murdered in 2006, she had to find out details from the local newspaper – not from law enforcement.
“All they said, and I read it in the paper, was that it was drug-related,” Bobb said. “But ... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | Women Against Registry Offers A Solution to the Hiring Problem | Come on In
I Need a Job!
How do we find the Road To Redemption?
We Are Hiring, But Not You!
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.”
— Oscar WildeARNOLD, MO, UNITED STATES, September 28, 2022 /EINPresswire.co... |
| May 31, 2022 | Want To Hire Youth At-Risk Of Incarceration? Learn From Ben & Jerry’s | ALEXANDRIA, VA - APRIL 20, 2018: A business sign hangs over the entrance to a Ben & Jerry's ice ... [+] cream shop in the Old Town section of Alexandria, Virginia. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images) Getty Images |
| Dec 14, 2021 | From Prison to PhD: The Journey of Education and Redemption | He can be driving in his car, approaching a traffic light, when it goes from green to yellow. Suddenly, there is a tightness that grips him. The paranoia arrives in waves. Is there a police officer nearby? I can't take the risk and accelera... |
| Sep 24, 2021 | The Economic And Social Case For In-Prison Entrepreneurial Support | Todd Khozein is the Founder and Co-CEO of impact and innovation company SecondMuse. |
| Sep 3, 2021 | Apple Announces $30 Million Investment Towards Racial Equity Focusing on Hispanic Inclusion | September 3, 2021 2 min read This story originally appeared on Black Enterprise
Coinciding with Hispanic Heritage Month, Apple has announced a $30 million investment in racial equity focusing on the Hispanic community.
The investment will s... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | R3 Score wants to bring the background check into the modern age | R3 Score, a Station North-based company birthed out of reentry-focused social enterprise Mission:Launch, is working to get the formerly incarcerated hired, and access to better loans to start their own ventures and businesses.
As with many ... |
| May 25, 2021 | 4 ways reparations for slavery can help close the racial wealth gap | Protesters rallying for reparations. Manny Ceneta/Stringer/Getty Images
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| Apr 26, 2021 | JPMORGAN CHASE & CO.
JPMorgan Chase : Expands Second Chance Hiring Efforts in Columbus | Columbus - April 26, 2021 -JPMorgan Chase announced today it is launching a community-based hiring model in Columbus to help remove barriers for qualified people with criminal backgrounds to secure employment at JPMorgan Chase. The firm als... |
| Apr 20, 2021 | AIRBNB, INC.
Airbnb : Activism and Allyship Guide | Last year Airbnb published a guide designed by the company's Black@ employee resource group to help interested people become better allies. The guide has been updated to reflect additional references to work from activists and experts in an... |
| Apr 15, 2021 | Banks Should Follow And Expand On Biden’s Lead And Divest From Mass Incarceration | Randell Leach, a corporate entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in financial services, serves as Beneficial State Bank’s CEO. |
| Apr 7, 2021 | How We Define Violent Crime in America Shapes Who Gets Punished for It—And Who Doesn't | The recent, horrific mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder came in the wake of nationwide spikes in the rates of homicides and domestic assaults, trends that had already prompted calls in many states for renewed law enforcement efforts on “... |
| Feb 23, 2021 | Small Business Owners: What You Need To Know About The New PPP Rules | What would LA be without tacos? Thousands of food businesses led by immigrants can benefit from new ... [+] PPP rules. Camino Financial |
| Dec 10, 2020 | ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is the latest Netflix series to mishandle its Black characters | Moses Ingram plays Jolene, one of the only Black characters on ‘The Queen’s Gambit.’ Netflix
Warning: This article contains spoilers for “The Queen’s Gambit.”
Jolene, one of the only Black characters on the Netflix show, falls into a series... |
| Dec 8, 2020 | As a physician and a patient, I’ve seen the damage caused by the stigma of addiction. It must end | Although the disease of addiction is now obscured by the dark cloud of the Covid-19 pandemic, it continues to tear America apart. It’s a relentless killer, fed by anxiety and uncertainty, and enabled by the attitudes of the health care prov... |
| Sep 23, 2020 | Hank Willis Thomas Asks And Answers America’s Toughest Questions About Race At Cincinnati Art Museum | Hank Willis Thomas (American, born 1976), 'The Cotton Bowl,' from the series, 'Strange Fruit,' 2011. ... [+] Chromogenic print, 50 15/16 × 74 7/16 × 1 1/2 inches. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum Purchase, W. Hawkins Ferry Fund. Image cour... |
| Jul 22, 2020 | Advocates raise alarms as COVID-19 cases rise inside Colorado’s juvenile prisons | The ACLU of Colorado and a coalition of juvenile justice advocates are calling for changes to the state’s juvenile prisons as COVID-19 cases increase among youth and staff members.
Four youth and three staff members tested positive for the ... |
| Jul 8, 2020 | 26 simple charts to show friends and family who aren't convinced racism is still a problem in America | Protesters gather in Harlem to protest the recent death of George Floyd on May 30, 2020 in New York City. David 'Dee' Delgado/Getty Images
The United States saw nationwide protests for weeks in 2020 over the death of George Floyd in police ... |
| May 28, 2020 | Colorado’s juvenile prisons have avoided COVID-19 outbreaks, but advocates worry about the future | The teen only gets to see his 8-month-old daughter over FaceTime these days. Charged with a violent offense, the 17-year-old has been in Greeley’s Platte Valley Youth Services Center since March as he awaits his next court date. But with th... |
| Apr 23, 2020 | Covid-19 will pass. Will we be able to say the same about the racism it has illuminated? | The Covid-19 pandemic is teaching me that the world can change almost overnight when it faces a big problem.
When President Trump declared a national emergency, my medical practice shifted almost instantly from in-person appointments to tel... |
| Apr 13, 2020 | A World Forgotten: The Lack Of Technology In U.S. Prisons | Photo:Getty |
| May 20, 2018 | Bail reform’s complex relationship with tech | On any given day in the United States, more than 450,000 people are behind bars awaiting their constitutionally mandated fair trial. None of them have been convicted of a crime — they’ve been accused of committing a crime, but no formal rul... |
| Jan 24, 2018 | Florida’s Ex-Offender Voter Restoration Effort Could Change Who Gets to Vote in 2020 | Across the country, more than 6 million Americans are not able to vote because of a past felony conviction. Voting rights advocates equate felony disenfranchisement with other forms of voter suppression like voter ID laws, gerrymandering an... |
| Dec 17, 2017 | Halt new OCCC plan; focus on reforms | Mahalo for supporting Honolulu Star-Advertiser. Enjoy this free story!
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One of the guard towers at Oahu Community Correctional Center (OCCC) in Kalihi.
While other states, through bipartisan efforts, are ... |
| Jul 4, 2017 | 5 chat services with the potential to change democracy | On the last 4th of July, VentureBeat took a look at five bots that could reshape or change democracy. One year later, we revisit the bot landscape with the same idea in mind.
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Detroit has a poverty rate of nearly 40 percent, on... |
| Jul 4, 2017 | 5 chat services with the potential to change democracy | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
On the last 4th of July, VentureBeat took a look ... |
| Feb 15, 2017 | Bullish: Tech tackles criminal justice reform | It’s no secret that the criminal justice system in the United States is broken. With 2.2 million people behind bars in prisons and jails in the country, the U.S. has the largest prison population in the world. In our first episode of Bullis... |
| Jul 31, 2016 | The other pipeline | Chrisfino Kenyatta Leal never thought he would end up in prison. What he did envision, he tells me, was dying before the age of 25 or 30.
“I saw so many people around me dying at such a young age that my long-term vision just wasn’t in focu... |
| May 10, 2016 | UK Gov't Pushing For 10-Year Jail Sentences For Copyright Infringement Based On ¯_(ツ)_/¯ | For many years, we’ve pointed out that so much policymaking around copyright law is what we’d argue to be purely “faith-based.” The fact that there is little to no actual evidence that stronger copyright protections lead to better outcomes ... |
| Nov 26, 2015 | We Put Six Times as Many Women in Prison Today as We Did in 1980 | When it comes to putting people in prison, the United States is beyond comparison. With more than 2.2 million people currently in prisons or jails in the US, the country boasts the highest rates of incarceration worldwide, at 716 people inc... |
| Jan 8, 2015 | New Funding For Privateer Highlights Marijuana’s Massive Market In The U.S. | The nondescript four-story former tenement at 149 Bowery, with its ground floor “Organic Spa and Shop” sandwiched between lighting fixture outlet stores, is an unlikely staging ground for the next push in the battle against the prohibition ... |
| Dec 27, 2014 | From Fake to Real Importance: Another Review of “The Interview” | This morning the Associated Press reported that South Korea, Japan and the United States will be signing their first three-way intelligence-sharing pact as part of an effort to address the growing North Korean nuclear threat. Seems like a g... |
| 'How Much Will It Stifle Innovation?' and Other Questions About Biden's Proposed AI Bill | Last week, the Biden administration released a blueprint for a proposed Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights. The bill included guidance on how to protect consumers’ data, how to limit discrimination by algorithms and human alternatives t... |
| #Boycotttwitch Trends On Twitter After A Streamer Broke Her Back At TwitchCon | Over the weekend, a Twitch streamer jumped off a pedestal into a pit of foam blocks. The result? A broken back and calls to boycott the live streaming platform.
Adriana Chechik broke her back in two places while at TwitchCon, an annual conv... |
| Would Biden's Proposed AI 'Bill of Rights' Be Effective—Or Just More Virtue Signaling? | Last week, the Biden administration released a blueprint for a proposed Artificial Intelligence Bill of Rights. The bill included guidance on how to protect consumers’ data, how to limit discrimination by algorithms and human alternatives t... |
| Election 2024 live updates: Trump Media stock halted three times amid volatile trading; Harris calls in to drive time radio | This is CNBC’s live coverage of Election Day 2024 in the U.S.
Americans are voting in record-setting numbers across the country this Election Day, marking the end of a history-making presidential race between former President Donald Trump a... |
