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A Black North Carolina man has been freed after being wrongfully imprisoned behind bars for 24 years. Bryan Anderson of the Associated Press reported that on Friday, Nov. 12, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper pardoned Dontae Sharpe, “who spent 24 years behind bars for a murder he has long said…
New research reveals that the American justice system continues to be a highly racist and discriminatory world, with Black men and women significantly more likely to be sentenced to time behind bars than whites. CNN’s Christina Carrega reported on a new study by The Sentencing Project published on Oct. 13.,…
Even a petition to the U.S. Supreme Court wasn’t enough to grant Ernest Johnson clemency. The death row inmate who many supporters had hoped to save due to his existing intellectual disability was executed on Tuesday, Oct. 5, in the state of Missouri. CNN’s Raja Razek and Paul LeBlanc reported…
Twenty-five Baltimore correctional officers were indicted Tuesday with allegations of assaulting and threatening detainees in a state-run jail, tampering with evidence and falsifying correctional documents. Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Jennifer Friedman released most of them Wednesday, pending their trial. Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby’s office secured these 25…
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…
Despite a district court’s stop of planned lethal injections, the Trump administration is pushing the U.S. Supreme Court to start federal executions up again. There have not been federal executions for nearly two decades. On Nov. 20, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the District of Columbia wrote a…
In a progressive new initiative unveiled on Monday, nearly 40 U.S. district attorneys will begin visiting prisons, jails and juvenile detention centers on a regular basis as well as incorporating it into their mandatory training and job expectations, The Washington Post reported. The group Fair and Just Prosecution (FJP) has led…
A new Gallup poll found that most Americans prefer someone face life in prison without parole over the death penalty, which signifies a national shift from a few years ago. It’s the first time in the 34 years Gallup has been asking this question that there has been a change…
A prisoner serving a life sentence at the Iowa State Penitentiary was taken to a local hospital in 2015 where he had to be resuscitated five times after his heart stopped. Benjamin Schreiber was sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole after being found guilty of first-degree…
Graham Williamson, 38, was sentenced to three years in prison this past Tuesday after he burned a cross next to the home of a Black boy in Mississippi, according to a Newsweek. The cross-burning, which occurred in October 2017, was supposed to frighten residents of the predominantly Black neighborhood named…
