Tag: incarcerated
With Women Imprisonment Rising, Black Females Still Feel the Brunt of America’s Mass Incarceration
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
America imprisons many more of its citizens than any other developed nation, with men comprising most...
Report Seeks to ‘Unlock the Vote’ in American Jails
By Stacy M. Brown, Senior National Correspondent, NNPA Newswire
According to a report from The Sentencing Project, current jail-based voter programs that rely on absentee...
Biden-Harris Administration to Invest More Than $1.6 Billion to Support COVID-19 Testing and Mitigation...
NNPA Newswire Report
As part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s ongoing COVID-19 response efforts, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will invest more...
Attorney Yusef Jackson Joins Correctional Technology Company as Senior Advisor
Son of Jesse Jackson to Help Deal with High Costs of Prison Phone Call
By Hazel Trice Edney
(TriceEdneyWire.com) - Attorney and entrepreneur Yusef Jackson is...
BLM Launches Survival Fund Amid Federal COVID-19 Relief Wait
By AARON MORRISON, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) _ The Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is formally expanding a $3 million financial relief fund...