President Joe Biden Orders Justice Dept. To End Contracts With Private Prisons
President Joe Biden has ordered the Justice Department to end its contracts with private prisons and acknowledge its role in discriminatory housing....
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Eddie Lee Howard, Wrongfully Imprisoned For The Killing a White Woman, Exonerated 26 Years on Death Row
Eddie Lee Howard, an innocent Black man who served 26 years on death row, has been released after having his innocence proven....
Jay-Z, Yo Gotti, and Team ROC Petition Courts to Force Mississippi’s Parchman Prison to Follow COVID-19 Guidelines
The rappers are calling on the courts to compel Parchman to adhere to COVID-19 guidelines...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Donates $10 Million to Meek Mill and Jay-Z’s Reform Alliance
REFORM will use Jack Dorsey's $10 million donation to purchase and deliver 10 million masks and PPE to every prison and jail in America....
These Black Women Were Fighting for Social Justice Long Before Kim K. Became the ‘Princess of Prison Reform’
The fight for criminal justice reform has been led by a collective of black community organizers, attorneys, and activists, who've been on the front lines...
[Video] President Obama Visits Federal Prison for VICE Special
In a special report “Fixing the System†cameras look on as President Obama takes an historical tour of Oklahoma’s El Reno Federal Correctional Institution and...
Report: All 6 Death Row Inmates Exonerated in 2014 Were Black
The National Registry of Exonerations shows that all of the exonerated inmates in 2014 who faced death sentences were African American...
Are There Really More Blacks In Prison Than Were In Slavery?
Author Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness cites statistics that claim there are more incarcerated African Americans today...