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Though polls show most people in New Jersey agree that marijuana should be legalized, there has been an increase in marijuana arrests in the state in recent years, the ACLU of New Jersey’s most recent data reports. Out of these arrests, racial disparities between Black and white suspects are high….
President Donald Trump deemed himself the “law and order” president, taking a “tough on crime” stance emphasized during his inaugural address in January that described the current state of America as a dystopian society. Trump’s newly appointed U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who was highly contested, is promoting his agenda…
Within minutes of swearing to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, Donald Trump’s White House on Friday scrubbed all references to LGBT rights, deleted the civil rights page and erased any mention of climate change. Meanwhile, a new page, “Standing Up For Our Law Enforcement Community,”…
U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch In her final weeks in office as U.S. attorney general, Loretta Lynch is still determined to seek justice for Americans. Sheannounced in a video statement on Friday that she is directing the Department of Justice to investigate if the recent rise in hate crimes is…
With a change in administration, it’s uncertain if criminal justice reform will continue. By Sheryl Estrada President Barack Obama, the first president to visit a federal prison and discuss criminal justice reform, created a clemency initiative to cut short long mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent offenders imposed during the “war…
Director Ava DuVernay’s new documentary “13th” explores how mass incarceration in the United States, which disproportionately affects African Americans, reflects the injustice of slavery. DuVernay, who received an Academy Award nomination for “Selma” in 2014, said in an interview the film “may shake up everything you thought you already knew…
The U.N.’s Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent recommends African Americans receive reparations for years of “racial terrorism.” Last week, the working group, which reports to the U.N. High Commissioner on Human Rights, presented its findings to the U.N. Human Rights Council. The team was invited by…
Highly profitable private prisons, which aided in the increased incarceration of Blacks and Latinos due to racial disparities in sentencing, have been deemed highly unsafe. By Sheryl Estrada REUTERS The Department of Justice announced Thursday it will phase out its contracts with private prisons to “ensure that inmates are in…
Criminal justice reform has long been an issue that has eluded tangible results. And with the negative consequences of what many consider to be a broken system becoming ever more apparentespecially among people and communities of colora major push is underway to finally enact change in the system. Coinciding with…
By Sheryl Estrada President Obama speaks at the annual convention of the NAACP in Philadelphia in July 2015. “There has been an awakening around the country to some problems in race relations and police-community relations that date back for decades,”President Obamasaid last week in an interview with NPR just days…