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Morehouse College’s Prison Education Initiative Offers Humanities Courses To Incarcerated, Returning Citizens

Atiya JordanApril 18, 2022April 18, 2022

by Atiya JordanApril 18, 2022April 18, 2022496

Since 2020, faculty members of Morehouse's Prison Education Initiative have been teaching courses in the humanities to men and women in prisons or reentry programs...

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New York’s Rikers Island Has Become a Hotbed For Violence, Wild Parties and Fatal Overdoses Due to Staffing Shortages

Cedric 'BIG CED' ThorntonSeptember 9, 2021September 9, 2021

by Cedric 'BIG CED' ThorntonSeptember 9, 2021September 9, 202118291

Inmates at Rikers Island are partying, smoking drinking and posting TikTok videos of the mayhem due primarily to a shortage of staff. It's wild....

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Jail Nurse Says She ‘Witnessed a Murder’, Presses FBI to Investigate Detainee’s Death

Jeroslyn JohnsonMay 17, 2021May 18, 2021

by Jeroslyn JohnsonMay 17, 2021May 18, 202128811

A jail nurse's persistence after she claims to have "witnessed a murder" led to an FBI investigation into the death of Hardell Sherrell....

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Oldest Juvenile Lifer, 82-Year-Old Man, Released from Prison After Nearly Seven Decades

Charlene RhinehartFebruary 14, 2021February 16, 2021

by Charlene RhinehartFebruary 14, 2021February 16, 202158597

Joe Ligon is free after serving 68 years in prison. He missed the era of Civil Rights, the technology boom, and the first Black President....

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Eddie Lee Howard, Wrongfully Imprisoned For The Killing a White Woman, Exonerated 26 Years on Death Row

Cedric 'BIG CED' ThorntonJanuary 14, 2021January 13, 2021

by Cedric 'BIG CED' ThorntonJanuary 14, 2021January 13, 20211313

Eddie Lee Howard, an innocent Black man who served 26 years on death row, has been released after having his innocence proven....

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Video: Correction Officers Tase Shackled, Seizure-Suffering Black Inmate Prior to His Death

Cedric 'BIG CED' ThorntonAugust 7, 2020August 7, 2020

by Cedric 'BIG CED' ThorntonAugust 7, 2020August 7, 20205607

A video from 2018 showing a shackled Black inmate tasered by corrections officers shortly before his death has surfaced--along with troubling questions....

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Colin Kaepernick Partners With Kennedy Organization to Bail People Out of Jail

Selena HillJuly 10, 2020July 10, 2020

by Selena HillJuly 10, 2020July 10, 202010362

Colin Kaepernick's Know Your Rights camp and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights announced a $1 million donation to community bail funds across the country....