37 correctional officers, 24 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19

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Black Man Claiming Misconduct In 1976 Rape Trial Calls On Gov. Roy Cooper To Commute Sentence

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Guitar hero: 1960s proto-punk rocker Wayne Kramer brings music workshops to prisons | Afro

The song, “Jail Guitar Doors,” was about guitarist Wayne Kramer—who at the time was wrapping up a prison sentence in Lexington, Kentucky for selling cocaine to an undercover federal

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Source: Afro | The Black Media Authority-0

Public defenders protest police violence

Public defenders and other court workers gathered in Nubian Square on Monday evening to protest police violence and racial discrimination in the criminal justice system, one of many such protests happening across the country this

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Source: The Bay State Banner

Somalia: FESOJ Strongly Slams 6-Month Jail Sentence of Independent Journalist in Mogadishu Over Facebook Posts

[Shabelle] The Federation of Somali Journalists (FESOJ) condemns the conviction and prison sentence handed down today against the deputy director of Goobjoog Media Group charged under articles 328 and 269 "Publication or circulation of false, exaggerated or tendentious information capable of

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Unrest erupts at Lusignan prison after two positive COVID tests - Stabroek News

Prisoners housed at the Lusignan prison responded angrily yesterday morning over their safety, a day after two inmates tested positive for the Coronavirus (COVID-19), Director of Prisons Gladwin Samuels

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

WNBA’s Maya Moore Welcomes Home Man She Sacrificed Season To Help Free From Prison

Minnesota Lynx star Maya Moore is known for being on the front lines to fight against social injustice, so when her longtime friend was finally released from prison after being wrongfully convicted—the WNBA

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Source: The Urban Daily

(1866) Mississippi Black Codes

1. CIVIL RIGHTS OF FREEDMEN IN MISSISSIPPI

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Chin’ono whisked to court, misses doc’s appointment

BY DESMOND CHINGARANDE Incarcerated investigative journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, who is accused of inciting public violence, was yesterday dragged out of his prison cell on the pretext that his physician wanted to see him. He was manhandled into a prison van and whisked to court where he had no

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

I missed chance to be a dad, Jamaican George Williams reflects 50 year incarceration without trial - Stabroek News

(Jamaica Gleaner) It was George Williams’ first Sunday as a free man, and his family made certain that he had a hearty dinner and experienced the warmth and togetherness of being at home in Ewarton, St

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Source: Stabroek News - Guyana's Most Trusted Newspaper

Women at Risk as COVID-19 Strikes State Prisons in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties | Black Voice News

Across California there are at minimum 436 incarcerated persons—men and women—confined and struggling to stay alive with active cases of

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Source: Black Voice News | The Voice of the Black Community in California

Sentenced for life for selling $30 worth of marijuana, military veteran Derek Harris to be freed - Face2Face Africa

Derek Harris, a military veteran serving a life sentence for selling $30 worth of marijuana is set to be released after he was re-sentenced from life without parole to nine years. Harris on October 2, 2008, sold .69 grams of marijuana to an undercover police officer. Arrested four months later, he

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Kwame Kilpatrick denied early release from prison hit hard by COVID-19 outbreak

(Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty

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Chinese remanded in custody over shooting

Gweru magistrate Edwin Marecha yesterday remanded in custody the 41-year-old Chinese who shot and seriously injured two employees at a gold mine close to the Midlands

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Source: NewsDay Zimbabwe - Everyday News for Everyday People

Namibia: Probe Against Self-Confessed Rapist Drags On

Jeremia van Wyk appeared in absentia in the Katutura Magistrate's Court before magistrate Namwenyo Shikalepo

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Sheriff defies subpoena to appear before commission

LOS ANGELES — As promised, Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva defied a subpoena to appear at the May 21 meeting of the county Civilian Oversight Commission, prompting the panel’s vote to challenge that move in

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Guilty until proven innocent - Incarcerated mentally ill persons given a raw deal, says psychiatrist

Psychiatrist Dr Geoffrey Walcott says the problem of mentally ill persons being held in prisons for decades without sentence is rooted in a system that forces such persons to prove not only their innocence, but that they will not commit further...

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Source: Jamaica Gleaner

Woman Arrested For Stalking Brandy Norwood, Singer Files For Restraining Order

Sources who claim to have knowledge of the situation have said that the R&B singer does not know the suspect, who has shown up to her Los Angeles home and several other

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Jonathan Irons Walks Out of Prison a Free Man, Thanks to Support from WNBA Star Maya Moore Who Put Career on Hold to Help

WNBA star Maya Moore scored a lot of victories in her professional basketball career, but none may be as significant as the victory she helped secure for

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EBONY HOSTS ROUND TABLE TO ADDRESS SYSTEMIC RACISM IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM • EBONY

Partnering with community leaders, Hollywood Elite, and influencers including EqualJusticeNow.Org, ACLU, NAACP, National Association of Baptist Pastors, Fox Sports Mike Hill, and more.

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Source: https://www.ebony.com

AFSC-AZ Unequivocally Condemns Rep. Blackman’s Statements on George Floyd, BLM – Arizona Informant Newspaper

PHOENIX, ARIZONA – June 4, 2020 – Over the last two years, American Friends Service CommitteeArizona (AFSC-AZ) has worked with state Rep. Walt Blackman on sentencing reform legislation, focusing on the areas of earned release credits for people in prison to reduce Arizona’s prison population and

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Source: Arizona Informant Newspaper

Reps. Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib Announce The BREATHE Act, Calling For Defunding Police, Reparations, and Universal Basic Income

[ad_1] In wake of the nationwide calls to end police brutality and systemic racism, two progressive members of Congress are throwing their support behind a bill that proposes to overhaul the criminal justice system. Drafted by the Movement for Black Lives, the BREATHE Act comes in response to the

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Source: The Black Chronicle

Holness administration declined UK prison offer, Phillips asserts

Leader of the Opposition, Dr Peter Phillip, says he strongly rejects claims from Prime Minister Andrew Holness that the United Kingdom prison offer to Jamaica was implicitly refused by the People’s National Party (PNP) administration....

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San Quentin prisoners go on hunger strike over coronavirus conditions

A small group of COVID-19 positive prisoners have declared a hunger strike to protest the living conditions inside San Quentin during the coronavirus pandemic. The post San Quentin prisoners go on hunger strike over coronavirus conditions appeared first on TheGrio.

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Black Man Claiming ‘Misconduct’ In 1976 Rape Trial Calls On Gov. Roy Cooper To Commute Sentence

Lau is awaiting a decision to vacate Long’s conviction, to send it back to lower court or to uphold his

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Source: NewsOne

Zambia frees jailed gay couple as part of prison amnesty

A Zambian couple jailed for homosexuality in 2019 were freed this week as part of an amnesty for convicted prisoners to mark Africa Freedom Day, a government gazette

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Source: https://www.news24.com

Former IAAF chief Lamine Diack found guilty of corruption, handed 2 year prison sentence | Africanews

The former head of World Athletics Lamine Diack has been found guilty for his role in allowing Russian athletes to pay bribes to compete when they should have been suspended for

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Father Divine

Father Divine (c. 1876 – September 10, 1965), also known as Reverend M. J. Divine, was an African American spiritual leader[2] from about 1907 until his death. His full self-given name was Reverend Major Jealous Divine, and he was also known as the Messenger early in his life. He founded the

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Rayshard Brooks’ ‘Girlfriend’ Is Arrested As Suspect In Wendy’s Fire

Source: Twitter / Atlanta Fire Rescue

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Mentally ill man gets bail after 20 years behind bars

Western Bureau: Forty-nine-year-old Abraham Lawrence, one of several mentally challenged persons, who had been locked away in state custody for two decades, was granted bail in the St Elizabeth Parish Court in Black River yesterday. Lawrence,...

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