SPLC sues private probation company, Alabama city over racketeering scheme
03/12/2015 | Read Full Article “When Roxanne Reynolds couldn’t pay the fines from traffic tickets in Clanton, Alabama, the city court put her on “pay-only” probation – a form of probation with the sole purpose of collecting fines, fees and ...
HuffPost Blog: Black Male Incarceration Problem Is Real
Antonio Moore | Los Angeles Attorney, Producer “Crack in The System” Documentary The Black Male Incarceration Problem Is Real and It’s Catastrophic “We have more work to do when more young black men languish in prison than attend colleges and ...
Policy.Mic: Sweden’s remarkable prison system has done what the ...
By Zeeshan Aleem January 27, 2015 The darkest manifestation of American exceptionalism may be its prison system. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world: It has only 5% of the world’s population, but one-quarter of its prisoners. U.S. ...