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OP-ED: Stopping the Exploitation of Prisoners and Their Families Requires More Comprehensive Solutions
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Much of the public outrage has been directed at the officials who have been unable to prevent the fatal spread of COVID-19 in jails and prisons throughout the country. But in addition, there were too many governors who were unwilling to reduce prison populations by releasing
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Fears of more COVID-19 spread as thousands of L.A. County inmates await transfer to state prisons
The number of inmates in Los Angeles County's jails is climbing and officials are worried overcrowding is leading to more dangerous conditions just as a wave of new coronavirus cases sweeps the region. Sheriff's Department officials said Wednesday that state prisons stopped accepting new transfers
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I missed chance to be a dad - George Williams reflects on lost moments, five-decade incarceration
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: Jamaica Gleaner
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Probe Into Prison Deaths Ends Up Uncovering $8 Billion in Untracked State Money - Los Angeles Sentinel
What started out as an investigation into inmate deaths in some of California's county jails led to an audit that uncovered severe overcrowding, a lack of mental health resources and $8 billion in State funds for which three county Sherriff offices cannot properly
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Released due to COVID, this 76-yr-old was sent back to prison for missing phone call during class - Face2Face Africa
Gwen Levi was one of the 4,500 federal prisoners who were released from prison and sent to home confinement last year to protect them from contracting the coronavirus. Levi had served 16 years in different federal facilities for dealing heroin and was allowed to leave last June and complete her
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Coronavirus Prison Outbreak in Seattle FDC Black & Hispanic BOP inmates exposed to spreading in general population
… an extraordinary situation where an African American prisoner, identified as "Nathaniel … the same prison cell as African-American civil rights lobbyist Cary Lee …
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Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuit Demanding Better Conditions in Broward County Jail
BROWARD, FL – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of Florida and the Disability Rights Florida filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of individuals being held in dangerous conditions in Broward County Jail that threaten to speed the spread of the coronavirus among prisoners and
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Source: The Florida Star
Two Tulsa Brothers Speak Out After Being Wrongfully Convicted Of Separate Crimes
On Friday, an NBC Dateline special takes a look at the story of Corey Atchison and Malcolm Scott, two Tulsa brothers wrongfully convicted of two separate murders, and who were both serving life sentences for crimes they say they did not
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Is it Unjust to Send Federal Prisoners Back After Early Pandemic-Related Releases? | The Michigan Chronicle
Anthony Boyd, a director at the Michigan Liberation nonprofit organization, shares his two cents with the possible rescinding of the CARES Act early release prison program.   Photo provided by Anthony Boyd      It’s no shock that COVID-19 has seeped into every facet of life in America and around
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BLACK RIVER, St Elizabeth Executive director of Legal Aid Council (LAC) Hugh Faulkner says the council will be moving swiftly to file for the release of more mentally ill detainees who have been incarcerated for decades without trial.
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COVID-19 hospitalization numbers continue decline as testing sites reopen | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Health department says recovery rate 42 days after a positive test is 92 percent
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Civil Rights Groups File Lawsuit Demanding Better Conditions in Broward County Jail
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “Even though parts of the state are reopening, it does not mean that the risk of COVID-19 outbreaks in jails has vanished,” said Benjamin Stevenson, staff attorney at the ACLU of
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Old, Sick and Incarcerated
Yet the federal correctional institution that housed Manafort had no coronavirus cases, and Manafort had served fewer than two years of his more than seven-year
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First Incarcerated Individual In Washington Dies Of COVID-19
TUMWATER – On Wednesday, June 17, 2020, an incarcerated patient of the Washington state correctional system passed away due to
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Possible Derek Chauvin Federal Plea Deal Could Explain Cryptic Message To George Floyd’s Family
Derek Chauvin and his legal team have reportedly been negotiating a federal plea deal that could provide some context to the cryptic message that the convicted murderer gave George Floyd's family in court during his sentencing.
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Let’s not forget Zulu! - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
Free Zulu! The US prison system, designed to capture, confine and control, denies it holds Political Prisoners like Kenny Zulu Whitmore, Imam Jamil Al-Amin, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, Leonard Peltier, Russell ‘Maroon’ Shoatz, Ed Poindexter, Romaine ‘Chip’ Fitzgerald and so many more, most falsely accused
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The Bureau of Prisons Really Sent a 76-Year-Old Grandmother Back to Jail for Missing Phone Calls While She Was in Class
Levi served 16 of the 24 years she was sentenced to in different prisons across the country. In June 2020, she was allowed finish her sentence in home confinement underneath "the supervision of federal prison officials."
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Former Rep. Corrine Brown Released From Sumter Prison to Home Confinement
This wasOriginally posted on April 23, 2020 Former Rep. Corrine Brown Released From Sumter Prison to Home ConfinementSUMTER COUNTY, Fla. - Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown was released from a Sumter County federal prison to home confinement today, after serving almost half of a 5 year sentence for
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Source: The Orlando Advocate
Rayshard Brooks’ ‘Girlfriend’ Is Arrested As Suspect In Wendy’s Fire
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Johnson, Jack (1878-1946)
Jack Johnson, the first African American and first Texan to win the heavyweight boxing championship of the world, was born the second of six children to Henry and Tiny Johnson in Galveston on March 31, 1878.  His parents were former slaves.  To help support his family, Jack Johnson left school in
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St Catherine inmate dies at hospital
An inmate at the St Catherine Adult Correctional Centre died this morning while being treated at the Spanish Town Hospital. Leslie-Ann Brown, director of corporate communications at the Department of Correctional ...
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Asm. Sydney Kamlager-Dove Pushing Law to End “Slavery” in California’s Prisons - L.A. Focus News
For 24 years now, Samual Brown – who was convicted for attempted murder in Sacramento – has been serving time in California state prisons. Right now, he is at a correctional facility in Lancaster, a Los Angeles County town northeast of L.A. While in prison, Brown says he has evolved. In addition to
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Jacob Zuma has begun doing time in Estcourt Prison
After a night vigil at the Nkandla homestead the battle is over, for now, as former president Jacob Zuma begins serving his 15 month sentence.
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Perilous prisons - Correctional facilities most dangerous for sick, mentally ill inmates
More than 400 inmates have been injured in violent altercations inside Jamaica’s prisons since 2018, and more than half of them have had to be taken outside the facilities for emergency medical attention. Many did not survive. At the same time,...
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Bill Cosbys Sex Crime Conviction Will Be Reviewed As Pennsylvanias Top Court Accepts His Appeal
Bill Cosby's appeal of his 2018 conviction for sexual assault has been accepted by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
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Stopping the Exploitation of Prisoners and Their Families Requires More Comprehensive Solutions - Milwaukee Community Journal
Op-ed by Dr. Ben Chavis 2020 brought renewed global focus to issues of social justice in America.  From the racial disparities and inequities highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic to the killings of George Floyd and so many other Black and Brown Americans at the hands of police officers have all
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Rayshard Brooks’ ‘Girlfriend’ Is Arrested As Suspect In Wendy’s Fire
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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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Western Sahara: Deterioration of Health Condition of Sahrawi Political Prisoner Abdul-Lah Ahmed Sidi Abhah
[SPS] Tifelt 2 (Morocco) -- The Saharawi political prisoner of the Gdeim Izik Group, Abdul-lah Ahmed Sidi Abhah, suffers a constant deterioration in his state of health as a result of the conditions of arbitrary detention and the transfer to Tifelt prison 2.
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37 correctional officers, 24 inmates have tested positive for COVID-19
Some 37 members of the correctional services and 24 inmates, in total, have tested positive for the coronavirus (COVID-19). This was disclosed by Minister Without Portfolio in the Ministry of National Security, Matthew Samuda, while addressing a...
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