Echoes of slavery—and the white supremacy that fueled it—continue to reverberate through the U.S. criminal legal system. The 13th Amendment may have outlawed the enslavement of Black people, but the United States continues to devise new ways to uphold the racist hierarchies that slavery was founded on and to restrict […]
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Every year on June 19, Americans have the opportunity to commemorate Juneteenth—the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take control of the state and liberate all enslaved people. This was two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation; a gap between Abraham Lincoln’s pen […]
Reality Winner, a former National Security Agency contractor who pleaded guilty to mishandling government secrets about Russian election interference and who has long sought a pardon, has been transferred from federal prison to the custody of a halfway house to serve the rest of her sentence. She has begun the […]
The Bureau of Prisons Approved 36. As the pandemic worsened inside federal prisons, officials granted fewer releases. The story of Sean McQuiddy. CLICK
Event: Fully Free Campaign Date: Wednesday, June 23 Time: 1PM Everyone deserves to fully participate in society as a free person—to access housing, education, employment, and opportunity. And yet, Illinois leaders have continued to restrict the basic human and civil rights of people with records. Permanent punishments are the barriers that […]
Gov. Ralph Northam is expected to sign probation reform legislation. Northam will attend the ceremony alongside Robert Rooks, the CEO of the Reform Alliance, an organization that aims to transform probation and parole legislation. The organization was started when rapper Meek Mill received a years-long sentence for a gun and […]
Listen to an important conversation about ending the stigma of “tough on crime,” the power of second chances and the need to create healing spaces. Featuring Raul Dorado, Shari-Stone Mediatore, Pablo Mendoza, Melissa Lorraine & the host of WBEZ Reset, Sasha-Ann Simons. Click Here To Listen