Incarceration

According to Christian Post, Sen. Tim Scott delivered a message at Potter's House praising the work Jakes has been doing.

The history of slavery and mass incarceration in this nation has been a history long swept under the rug for convenience. Other than what’s taught in schools, there isn’t really a place where people can learn about this history until now. Roland Martin talks with Bryan Stevenson the director of the Equal Justice Initiative that’s […]

America’s jails and prisons have long since banned and censored books that they determined posed a material danger to the safety of inmates and employees. It makes sense to prohibit how-to manuals on crafting homemade weapons or escaping confined spaces, but at least two prisons in New Jersey have decided to ban Michelle Alexander’s groundbreaking […]

Black women have become accustomed to hearing negative statistics about their finances, health and marriageability, but there is one statistic that has improved dramatically. According to recent reports, Black women are going to jail much less, while white women’s incarceration rates have skyrocketed. The Washington Post reports: The U.S. imprisonment rate has been declining for […]

Racial profiling and the mass incarceration of Black people will always be an important topic to address. But according to an op-ed in The New York Times, the issue may also be connected to the growing number of women who are dying from AIDS. As for the specific cause of the increase, it is unknown. […]

The United States seems to enjoy locking people up. Despite the nation only accounting for 5 percent of the world’s population, America accounts for 25…

In 1970, Marshall “Eddie” Conway was convicted of murdering Donald Sager, a Baltimore police officer. At the time, Conway was the Minister of Defense of the Black Panther Party in Baltimore. Sager and two other police officers were ambushed in their patrol cars by three men as they answered a call for domestic disturbance. The […]

Half of all Black males in the United States have been behind bars by age 23, according to a new study published by academic journal…