Diversity Management, News and Updates
The family of a transgender woman in Georgia who was sent to a men’s prison and then routinely taunted by guards until she took her own life will be receiving a $2.2-million wrongful-death settlement from the state’s prison system. Trudy Ring of The Advocate reported that the settlement, which is…
Black Americans have a long history of being over-policed and charged with crimes at a disproportionately higher rate than whites — and nowhere in the United States does that appear truer than in the state of Wisconsin. Deon J. Hampton of NBC News has reported that “years of housing segregation…
People of color still are significantly more likely to end up in the criminal justice system than white people, but new research from the nonpartisan think tank, the Council on Criminal Justice reflects a decline in the size of these disparities between 2000 and 2016. Racial gaps in jails, prisons…
The Hennepin County public defender’s office found in a study of the police marijuana sales’ four-month sting to reduce crime that the low-level targets were almost all Black. A call to Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, who then called the city’s first Black police chief, Medaria Arradondo, stopped it within a…
A former federal prosecutor who once said Blacks and Hispanics are more violent than whites has been tapped to join President Donald Trump’s sentencing commission. William Otis, a Georgetown professor, writes on a blog called “Crime and Consequences.” He wrote in a 2013 post: “Thus, when Fifth Circuit Judge Edith…
